Question

I am wanting to have a place where i can store all the strings used in my applicaton, so i can modify them in one place and not all the places. Something like a resource file, where i can put a label on the strings and just call the label.

I am not aware of anything offered by QT for this, so would I just need to create a header file with all those strings and include it everywhere I need it? What is the appropriate way to do this and could you offer a small example?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

I haven’t used it yet, but I think, that the Qt Internationalization would allow you to do something like this, since one of it’s options is to take all strings out of the application code so they can be replaced by translations. Even if you don’t want to use any other features of this module, it would allow you to solve your problem. Replacing a string for a label would look like this:

QLabel *label = new QLabel(tr("Password:"));

The tr() function is already part of the Qt classes and you get a few more functions and macros for free that help to search and replace strings.
The strings to be replaced can then be managed with QtLinguist.
You can find a more detailed explanation here: Internationalization with Qt