[Scilab-Dev] Localization Scilab / Scipad

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le dimanche 20 juillet 2008 à 21:31 +0200, François Vogel a écrit :
> Enrico Segre said on 30/06/2008 09:44:
> > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 21:40 +0200, Claude Gomez wrote:
> >> on 29/06/2008 10:42 Enrico Segre wrote:
> >>
> >>> Perhaps what you want is that at first run of scilab (no scipad
> >>> preference file existing yet) the default scipad language matches that
> >>> of scilab?
> >> Yes it is exactly the behavior I would like to have.
> > 
> > Then, modulo language sets mapping, that should amount just to a 
> > 
> > if { ![info exists lang] }
> >    { ScilabEval "TCL_SetVar(\"lang\",getlanguage(),\"scipad\") }
> > 
> > at line 226 of SCI/modules/scipad/tcl/defaults.tcl. 
> 
> 
> I've just had a try on this suggestion.
> 
> It doesn't work.
> 
> And it doesn't work because in fact we would need to have the lang 
> variable set immediately, i.e. the Tcl script must wait until 
> ScilabEval has finished execution.
> 
> This means mandatory "sync" "seq" options for ScilabEval.
> 
> If I put this:
> 
> if {![info exists lang]} {
>      # general default fallback, in case retrieval from Scilab fails
>      set lang "en_US"
>      ScilabEval "TCL_SetVar(\"lang\",getlanguage(),\"scipad\")" "sync" 
> "seq"
>      }
> }
> 
> in defaults.tcl lines 202+, then launching of Scipad just hangs.
> 
> 
> Tcl interface...
> 
> 
> scipad.sci reads the Tcl code the following way:
> 
>      TCL_EvalStr("source 
> """+SCI+"/modules/scipad/tcl/scipad.tcl""","scipad")
> 
>          In scipad.tcl, a number of files are sourced, then Tcl main 
> level code is executed, starting in defaults.tcl.
> 
>             In defaults.tcl, we have now 
> ScilabEval{TCL_SetVar\"lang\",getlanguage()...  } sync seq
> 
> It hangs on this instruction.
> 
> 
> Removing the sync, and keeping only the seq it doesn't hang anymore 
> but it sets the lang variable to the getlanguage() value only after 
> the full Scipad is sourced, which is too late.
OK, so, it is understand well, the sync option doesn't work correctly.
It is the current issue here ?

Sylvestre