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Diffstat (limited to 'library/msgcat')
| -rw-r--r-- | library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl | 32 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl b/library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl index 7eb1f90..4619ae1 100644 --- a/library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl +++ b/library/msgcat/msgcat.tcl @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ # See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution # of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. # -# RCS: @(#) $Id: msgcat.tcl,v 1.3 1999/08/19 02:59:49 hobbs Exp $ +# RCS: @(#) $Id: msgcat.tcl,v 1.4 2000/04/11 21:16:18 ericm Exp $ package provide msgcat 1.0 @@ -32,20 +32,38 @@ namespace eval msgcat { # msgcat::mc -- # # Find the translation for the given string based on the current -# locale setting. +# locale setting. Check the local namespace first, then look in each +# parent namespace until the source is found. If additional args are +# specified, use the format command to work them into the traslated +# string. # # Arguments: # src The string to translate. +# args Args to pass to the format command # # Results: -# Returns the translatd string. +# Returns the translatd string. Propagates errors thrown by the +# format command. + +proc msgcat::mc {src args} { + # Check for the src in each namespace starting from the local and + # ending in the global. -proc msgcat::mc {src} { set ns [uplevel {namespace current}] - foreach loc $::msgcat::loclist { - if {[info exists ::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src)]} { - return $::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src) + + while {$ns != ""} { + foreach loc $::msgcat::loclist { + if {[info exists ::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src)]} { + if {[llength $args] == 0} { + return $::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src) + } else { + return [eval \ + [list format $::msgcat::msgs($loc,$ns,$src)] \ + $args] + } + } } + set ns [namespace parent $ns] } # we have not found the translation return [uplevel 1 [list [namespace origin mcunknown] \ |