ayanova/src/api/errorhandler.js

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ async function dealWithError(msg, vm) {
   lastMessageTimeStamp = new Date();
 
   //translate as necessary
-  msg = await window.$gz.translation.translateStringWithMultipleKeys(msg);
+  msg = await window.$gz.translation.translateStringWithMultipleKeysAsync(msg);
 
   //In some cases the error may not be translatable, if this is not a debug run then it should show without the ?? that translating puts in keys not found
   //so it's not as weird looking to the user

ayanova/src/api/gzform.js

@@ -654,16 +654,14 @@ export default {
               ve.error +
               "]";
             if (ve.message) {
-              //NOTE: This is (**still not**) how to handle calling an async function from a sync function
-              //for reference sync async function async method from sync method
-              //it just can't be done and this needs to go away and not be expected to do this
-              let transMessage = ve.message;
-              window.$gz.translation
-                .translateStringWithMultipleKeys(ve.message)
-                .then(result => {
-                  transMessage = result;
-                });
-              fldErr += ' - "' + transMessage + '"';
+              //NOTE: call sync version here as can't call async code from here
+              //so translations must already be pre-fetched to work here
+              fldErr +=
+                ' - "' +
+                window.$gz.translation.translateStringWithMultipleKeys(
+                  ve.message
+                ) +
+                '"';
               ret.push(fldErr);
             } else {
               ret.push(fldErr);

ayanova/src/api/translation.js

@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ export default {
   //translation keys that start with LT:
   //translate each and replace and return the string translated
   // (fetch and cache any missing strings)
-  async translateStringWithMultipleKeys(s) {
+  async translateStringWithMultipleKeysAsync(s) {
     let ret = s;
     let found = s.match(/LT:[\w]*/gm);
     if (found == null) {
@@ -324,6 +324,26 @@ export default {
 
     return ret;
   },
+  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+  // Take in a string that contains one or more
+  //translation keys that start with LT:
+  //translate each and replace and return the string translated
+  // (DOES NOT fetch and cache any missing strings, they must exist)
+  //this is the sync version to be used in non async capable code
+  translateStringWithMultipleKeys(s) {
+    let ret = s;
+    let found = s.match(/LT:[\w]*/gm);
+    if (found == null) {
+      return ret;
+    }
+    //replace
+    found.forEach(z => {
+      let translated = this.get(z.replace("LT:", ""));
+      //replace all
+      ret = ret.split(z).join(translated);
+    });
+    return ret;
+  },
 
   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   // dynamically set the vuetify language elements from