Cannot localize tooltip string in screens - what's wrong?

[unregistered]

I am using the tooltip function in screens to show tooltips for different textbuttons or hotspots.

For some weird reason, these texts are not localized. For example things like these:

inventory.rpy:

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(...)

textbutton "{image=/images/cursorsicons/icon_inventory.webp}" style "inventory_button" align (.91,.04) tooltip _("Inventory") action [
            Show("inventory_screen"),
            Hide("inventory_button"),            
            ]           
            
(...)

I am using the tooltip-Text with the GetToolTip() function to show it as soon as the button is hovered.

It works fine as it is.

Now, the translation for this is also created and the strings are translated into different languages:


/tl/german/inventory.rpy:

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translate german strings:
(...)
    # game/inventory.rpy:80
    old "Inventory"
    new "Inventar"
(...)

However, Renpy still just pulls the original string from the original inventory.rpy for the tooltip-string and does not substitute with the translation. So instead of "Inventar", it just continues to show "Inventory". It does find the string when extracting and all - it just doesn't use it ingame.

All other strings are pulled and displayed correctly - even from the same file. But all tooltip-strings just stay at the default language.

What's the issue here?

[m_from_space]

Assuming you save your GetToolTip() inside the variable "tooltip", the text object that includes the tooltip needs to look like this:

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text "[tooltip!t]"

# or

text tooltip

not

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text "[tooltip]"

[unregistered]

Argh, I actually even know this.

Thanks for bumping me in the correct direction! This does the trick.