Additional messages for gizmos

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Summary

• Show a message to surface the fact that the keyboard cursor can be triggered by using arrow keys

• Show a message to surface the fact that the on-screen controls can be hidden/shown with the cog button

Translate for locales.

AI usage

Claude Sonnet 5 wrote the translations and added the messages in the right place.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added localized guidance for selecting objects with the keyboard across supported languages.
  • Added translated instructions explaining how to show or hide gizmo controls.
  • Scale, rotation, and position tools now display helpful controls guidance when keyboard interaction begins.
  • Selection workflows provide clearer prompts when an object must be chosen.

• Bug Fixes

  • Gizmo hints are now cleared when gizmo interactions end, preventing outdated messages from remaining visible.

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📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 773ad03 and 48003d4.

📒 Files selected for processing (9)

• locale/de.js
• locale/en.js
• locale/es.js
• locale/fr.js
• locale/it.js
• locale/pl.js
• locale/pt.js
• locale/sv.js
• ui/gizmos.js

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds localized mesh-selection prompts and gizmo-control hints in eight locales. Gizmo flows display hints during scale, rotation, and position interactions, pass translated prompts to mesh picking, clear hints on exit, and use the prompt in selection mode.

Changes

Gizmo localization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Localized interaction messages locale/de.js, locale/en.js, locale/es.js, locale/fr.js, locale/it.js, locale/pl.js, locale/pt.js, locale/sv.js	Each locale adds select_mesh_prompt and gizmo_controls_hint.
Gizmo prompt and hint wiring ui/gizmos.js	Gizmo activation and mesh-picking flows display translated messages. Gizmo cleanup clears the controls hint. Selection mode passes the translated mesh-selection prompt.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• flipcomputing/flock#561: Extends keyboard-driven gizmo and mesh-selection workflows.
• flipcomputing/flock#566: Modifies the same gizmo interaction and localization flows.
• flipcomputing/flock#713: Adds related status and prompt handling in ui/gizmos.js.

Suggested reviewers: tracygardner, claude

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately identifies the main change: adding user-facing messages for gizmos.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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