\t in menus not working with LangTrans

paul yang · Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 0 Location: U.S.A

how can I use LangTrans to translate menu entries like MENUITEM "&New \tCtrl + N", IDC_DELALL

the problem is, that the accelerator is always missing. I always get only &New

Support · Site Admin Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 118

In most cases, name of the accelerator key in menu item don't need to be changed, since accelerator setting is kept untouched. So we don't put it into language pack by default, and it don't need to be translated, the original accelerator name will be appended to menu item by locwise at runtime.
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paul yang · Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 0 Location: U.S.A

Thanks for your quick answer, but:

Why? Accelerator keys have to be translated as well. I think of Ctrl+F -> that would be Strg+F at German keyboard. And exactly that is my problem now.

Support · Site Admin Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 118

Actually, LocWise does have the ability to translate accelerator key name in menu item. What you need to do is to turn on "Include menu accelerator" in LangGen for LocWise to ensure the accelerator key name is generated into language pack before translating.
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