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Tkinter path handling under Windows with `MessageCatalog.load`

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

OS: Windows 10 64-bit Python: 3.9.7 tkinter: 8.6.9 ttkbootstrap: 1.7.4

Describe the bug

I used the load method to load all translation files in a directory.

Under Windows atleast the load method needs:

An absolute-resolved path.
All backslashes replaced with forward slashes

You can fix your implementation by just resolving the path and replacing any backslashes with forward slashes. I can drop a PR if you wish.

To Reproduce

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Expected behavior

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Additional context

This is most probably a Tkinter bug, or might be a Tk bug as well.

Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

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dembertocommented, Apr 14, 2022

@rdbende The resolve() method turns all forward slashes to backslashes on Windows. Tk doesn’t understand them and escapes them entirely. Also ttkbootstrap’s implementation is not what is recommended. The msgcat manual page recommends using this command:

::msgcat::mcload [file join [file dirname [info script]] msgs]

where msgs is the folder containing translations

I don’t know how ttkbootstrap’s implementation works, but when I tried using the same code in my own application it didn’t work, the above command worked.

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dembertocommented, Apr 22, 2022

@israel-dryer I agree, its a bug in Tk itself. Any Windows software should support backslashes in paths

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