Question

i am using pyqt and designer. i have translated all the strings in my app with self.tr() + pylupdate4 and lrelease

here is the snippet of code in my main():

app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
app.setApplicationName('Mental Calculation')

# initialize locale and load translation files if available
locale = QtCore.QLocale()
LOCALENAME = str(locale.system().name())
translator = QtCore.QTranslator()
translator.load("mentalcalculation_%s" % LOCALENAME)
app.installTranslator(translator)

I use a QDialogButtonBox in a QDialog with a QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel and a QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Ok

and the strings in these buttons are not translated. because pylupdate4 does pick any string for them.

Have I missed a configuration step in my app so that they are translated ?
I don’t understand how the string for standard buttons of QDialogButtonBox are supposed to be translated and can’t found doc about that.

Answer 1

Use the method below to set the buttons’ text:

buttonBox->button(QDialogButtonBox::Ok)->setText(tr("Ok"));
buttonBox->button(QDialogButtonBox::Cancel)->setText(tr("Cancel"));

then lupdate .ts file, open it with linguist and you’ll find the strings.