From 7394015a767e4b90d10dabf5bf47eb2a38c7af43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benny Malengier <benny.malengier@gramps-project.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:55:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] allow better string translation of no active object

svn: r14367
---
 src/DisplayState.py             | 15 +++++++++++++--
 src/gui/views/navigationview.py |  9 +++++++++
 src/gui/views/pageview.py       |  7 -------
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/DisplayState.py b/src/DisplayState.py
index 30f436913..adfc99115 100644
--- a/src/DisplayState.py
+++ b/src/DisplayState.py
@@ -312,6 +312,18 @@ class DisplayState(gen.utils.Callback):
         'filter-name-changed' : (str, unicode, unicode), 
         'nameformat-changed' : None, 
         }
+    
+    #nav_type to message
+    NAV2MES = {
+        'Person': _("No active person"),
+        'Family': _("No active family"),
+        'Event': _("No active event"),
+        'Place': _("No active place"),
+        'Source': _("No active source"),
+        'Repository': _("No active repository"),
+        'Media': _("No active media"),
+        'Note': _("No active note"),
+        }
 
     def __init__(self, window, status, progress, warnbtn, uimanager, 
                  progress_monitor, viewmanager=None):
@@ -488,8 +500,7 @@ class DisplayState(gen.utils.Callback):
                     name = '%s (%s)' % (name, msg.strip())
 
         if not name:
-            name = _('No active %(navigation_type)s') % {"navigation_type":
-                                                         _(nav_type.lower())}
+            name = self.NAV2MES[nav_type]
 
         self.status.push(self.status_id, name)
         process_pending_events()
diff --git a/src/gui/views/navigationview.py b/src/gui/views/navigationview.py
index 647bab88a..68e4e754c 100644
--- a/src/gui/views/navigationview.py
+++ b/src/gui/views/navigationview.py
@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ class NavigationView(PageView):
 
         self.uistate.register(self.navigation_type(), self.nav_group)
 
+    
+    def navigation_type(self):
+        """
+        Indictates the navigation type. Navigation type can be the string
+        name of any of the primary Objects. A History object will be 
+        created for it, see DisplayState.History
+        """
+        return None
+
     def define_actions(self):
         """
         Define menu actions.
diff --git a/src/gui/views/pageview.py b/src/gui/views/pageview.py
index 028496987..95124c534 100644
--- a/src/gui/views/pageview.py
+++ b/src/gui/views/pageview.py
@@ -157,13 +157,6 @@ class PageView(DbGUIElement):
         class.
         """
         raise NotImplementedError
-
-    def navigation_type(self):
-        """
-        Indictates the navigation type. Currently, we only support navigation
-        for views that are Person centric.
-        """
-        return None
     
     def ui_definition(self):
         """