Translating external workbenches

[Kunda1]

dodo workbench is fully translated to spanish

Wait what? How did I miss this news?
So these instructions would work for other external workbenches?

[Kunda1]

Excellent! If you are interested, I would advise you to create a main .ts file (without language code in it), and add it to https://crowdin.com/project/freecad-addons (send me your crowdin username and I'll give you access rights). Then FreeCAD translators can then easily find it. When you have access right, you also have access to the crowdin API and automate all the process of uploading/retrieving translations, check the translation scripts I did for the BIM WB at https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/BIM_Wo ... ster/utils

Ok we need to write documentation for this and make it prominent for Addon devs to see it. Anyone want to help me?

[Kunda1]

Excellent! If you are interested, I would advise you to create a main .ts file (without language code in it), and add it to https://crowdin.com/project/freecad-addons (send me your crowdin username and I'll give you access rights). Then FreeCAD translators can then easily find it. When you have access right, you also have access to the crowdin API and automate all the process of uploading/retrieving translations, check the translation scripts I did for the BIM WB at https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/BIM_Wo ... ster/utils

Ok we need to write documentation for this and make it prominent for Addon devs to see it. Anyone want to help me?

Does every external workbench need to load ...?

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from PySide.QtCore import QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP
from DraftGui import translate

[yorik]

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Translating ... _workbench
But it still needs some work...

[Kunda1]

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Translating ... _workbench
But it still needs some work...

Yorik, perhaps we should consider @vocx's refinements at https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_Sheet ... -546412627
I like how he assumes that he adds the conditional:

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if App.GuiUp:

which is cool because it's future friendly toward running FC headless but still translated.

[Evgeniy]

Do I understand correctly that to start translating the FreeCAD interface, i need to register
here -->> https://crowdin.com/project/freecad/ru
Or is it done by another way?

[Kunda1]

Do I understand correctly that to start translating the FreeCAD interface, i need to register
here -->> https://crowdin.com/project/freecad/ru

correct

[KAKM]

This wiki page https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Translating ... n_.py_file recommends I load the translate function using

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from FreeCAD.Qt import translate

but it threw a Module Not Found Error. Is there something else I need to import first?

[chennes]

Yeah, I think that's not quite correct there in the Wiki. What you really need is:

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from FreeCAD import Qt
Qt.translate("context","text")

[Roy_043]

AFAICT the context for (sub)menu names and toolbar names should always be "Workbench". I have changed the Translating_an_external_workbench page accordingly.

Since the same information also applies to 'internal' workbenches, the page should perhaps be renamed?:
Translating_a_Workbench