readme typos, updated translation docs

2 files changed, 61 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 01e1c151..9ef3f99b 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ You can read the documentation online at `http://leap-client.readthedocs.org <ht
 Quick Start
 ==============
 
-At the current development stage we still do not have any versioned release. Instead, you might want to have a look at the `testers guide<http://leap-client.readthedocs.org/en/latest/testers/howto.html>`_ for a quick howto on fetching and testing latest development code.
+At the current development stage we still do not have any versioned release. Instead, you might want to have a look at the `testers guide <http://leap-client.readthedocs.org/en/latest/testers/howto.html>`_ for a quick howto on fetching and testing latest development code.
 
 Dependencies
 ------------------
 
-Leap client depends on these libraries:
+LEAP Client depends on these libraries:
 
 * ``python 2.6`` or ``2.7``
 * ``qt4 libraries``
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ After a successful installation, there should be a launcher called ``leap-client
 Hacking
 =======
 
-See the `hackers guide<http://leap-client.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dev/environment.html>`_
+See the `hackers guide <http://leap-client.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dev/environment.html>`_.
 
 The LEAP client git repository is available at::
 
diff --git a/src/leap/util/translations.py b/src/leap/util/translations.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c06aa947
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/leap/util/translations.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import inspect
+
+from PyQt4.QtCore import QCoreApplication
+
+"""
+here I could not do all that I wanted.
+the context is not getting passed to the xml file.
+Looks like pylupdate4 is somehow a hack that does not
+parse too well the python ast.
+I guess we could generate the xml for ourselves as a last recourse.
+"""
+
+# XXX BIG NOTE:
+# RESIST the temptation to get the translate function
+# more compact, or have the Context argument passed as a variable
+# It HAS to be explicit due  to how the pylupdate parser
+# works.
+
+
+qtTranslate = QCoreApplication.translate
+
+
+class LEAPTr:
+    pass
+
+
+def translate(*args):
+    """
+    translate(Context, text, comment)
+    """
+    print 'translating...'
+    klsname = None
+    try:
+        # get class value from instance
+        # using live object inspection
+        prev_frame = inspect.stack()[1][0]
+        self = inspect.getargvalues(prev_frame).locals.get('self')
+        if self:
+            # XXX will this work with QObject wrapper??
+            if isinstance(LEAPTr, self) and hasattr(self, 'tr'):
+                print "we got a self in base class"
+                return self.tr(*args)
+
+            # Trying to  get the class name
+            # but this is useless, the parser
+            # has already got the context.
+            klsname = self.__class__.__name__
+            print 'KLSNAME  -- ', klsname
+    except:
+        print 'error getting stack frame'
+
+    if klsname:
+        nargs = (klsname,) + args
+        return qtTranslate(*nargs)
+
+    else:
+        nargs = ('default', ) + args
+        return qtTranslate(*nargs)