Getting the value of a cell attribute in HtmlWindow

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I want to write an application which shows the lyrics of a French song in one window and, when the user clicks on a line in that window, the English translation of that line appears in another window. I thought it should be possible to do this using an HtmlWindow with a custom tag to store the translation for a line, like the following. (Here is a custom tag with parameter “trans”.)

page = “”"

J’ai dansé avec l’amour



J’ai fait des tours et des tours

"""

The lyrics window will then show:

J’ai dansé avec l’amour
J’ai fait des tours et des tours

Clicking on a line should then show the associated translation. But for that I need to get the value of the attribute “trans” for the line clicked on. I know how to get the line (container cell) clicked on but I don’t know how to get the value of its attribute “trans”. Can someone help?

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It's likely that you can't do that -- wx.HTMLWindow supports a pretty limited subset of HTML. (if I'm wrong, I hope someone will speak up)

I'd keep the translation<->original text mapping in your own data structure in Python, instead of within the HTML.

-CHB

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On 9/7/11 1:38 PM, Patrick wrote:

I want to write an application which shows the lyrics of a French song
in one window and, when the user clicks on a line in that window, the
English translation of that line appears in another window. I thought it
should be possible to do this using an HtmlWindow with a custom tag to
store the translation for a line, like the following. (Here <line> is a
custom tag with parameter "trans".)

page = """<html><body>
<line trans="I danced with love">
J'ai dans� avec l'amour<br>
</line>
<line trans="I went round and round">
J'ai fait des tours et des tours
</line>
</body></html>"""

The lyrics window will then show:

J'ai dans� avec l'amour
J'ai fait des tours et des tours

Clicking on a line should then show the associated translation. But for
that I need to get the value of the attribute "trans" for the line
clicked on. I know how to get the line (container cell) clicked on but I
don't know how to get the value of its attribute "trans". Can someone help?

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