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 ...
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