strings versus translatable strings

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strings versus translatable strings

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wesnoth.show_popup_dialog (https://wiki.wesnoth.org/LuaWML/Display ... pup_dialog) is an easy way to bring up a message box that resembles the [objectives] we all see at the start of a scenario. (It also resembles the old-style messages, before they were moved to the bottom of the screen.)

I'm not sure whether this is just a matter of me being rusty or whether there is a bug in wesnoth.show_popup_dialog, but passing a translatable string to that function causes an error. I've looked at what works with wesnoth.show_dialog, but it's not clear to me how to apply it. It seems like there might be a hint at https://wiki.wesnoth.org/LuaWML/Display ... textdomain, but I don't understand what it's saying and don't put too much stock in that. Does anyone know of a working example of wesnoth.show_popup_dialog?

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Re: strings versus translatable strings

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you coudl file a bugreport. As a workaroudn you can simply add a tostring() call on the prameter of wesnoth.show_popup_dialog
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There's data/lua/wml/object.lua:66 in mainline, which I would assume works.
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Pentarctagon wrote:There's data/lua/wml/object.lua:66 in mainline, which I would assume works.
I'll assume it works too. (Not sure how I missed that.) It uses tostring(), like gfgtdf said. Is that a workaround of a bug, or is it customizing a flexibility? Maybe it doesn't matter.
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Re: strings versus translatable strings

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I'd say show_popup_dialog should be changed to accept translatable strings though. It would be pretty easy to do, just call luaW_checktstring or something instead of luaL_checkstring.
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