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Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition

You're reading from   Application Development with Qt Creator - Second Edition Design and build dazzling cross-platform applications using Qt and Qt Quick

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398675
Length 264 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Qt Creator 2. Building Applications with Qt Creator FREE CHAPTER 3. Designing Your Application with Qt Designer 4. Qt Foundations 5. Developing Applications with Qt Widgets 6. Drawing with Qt 7. Doing More with Qt Quick 8. Multimedia and Qt Quick 9. Sensors and Qt Quick 10. Localizing Your Application with Qt Linguist 11. Optimizing Performance with Qt Creator 12. Developing Mobile Applications with Qt Creator 13. Qt Tips and Tricks Index

Including localized strings in your application


In order to supply translated strings to the tr and qsTr functions in your application, your application needs to include a QTranslator object to read the .qm files and replace the strings provided to tr and qsTr with their translated counterparts. We can do this in your main entry point function, as follows:

QApplication a(argc, argv);
QTranslator translator;
bool result = translator.load("QtLinguistExample-epo.qm");
a.installTranslator(&translator);

    // Other window setup stuff goes here
    
return a.exec();

This code allocates a QTranslator object and loads the indicated translation file into the translator before installing it into the QApplication object. In this example, we're hardcoding the language in order to localize to Esperanto.

Note that if you want to support the locale as picked by the system, you might choose to do it this way:

QString locale = QLocale::system().name();
QTranslator translator;
translator.load(QString("QtLinguistExample...
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