Qt Designer and GNU GetText, not getting along

[Vadi]

Hi,

I'm wanting to use GNU GetText for translating my Qt Designer ui files (not Qt Linguist, it's non-standard file format isn't supported by Launchpad's Rosetta) but having difficulties doing so.

Since the .h files for my dialogs are generated from .ui files which are generated by the Qt Designer, adding the gettext functions to either would be pointless as changes will be overwritten. I was pointed to this script on #qt, which (if I understand correctly) would translate ts files into .pot and .po ones back into .ts.

But I can't get a .ts file to begin with unfortunately. I've added my .ui file to the .pro file as a FORMS variable, ran the lupdate tool, got no errors but no .ts either.

Any ideas?

[wysota]

What did you run lupdate on? Did you pass a project file to it?

[jacek]

Do you have TRANSLATIONS += something.ts in your .pro file?

[Vadi]

I modified my root .pro file and added this:

FORMS = ui/alias_widget.ui
TRANSLATIONS = mudlet_fr.ts

Then I ran lupdate mudlet.pro. I gave no errors. But I checked in both the ui folder and src folders, but mudlet_fr.ts wasn't present.

[wysota]

Run qmake, compile the application so that uic has a chance to run and then run lupdate.

[Vadi]

Sorry, but that didn't help either... still no .ts

[wysota]

Could you explain step by step what exactly did you do? What versions of each application do you use, etc.?

[Vadi]

$ qmake --version
QMake version 2.01a
Using Qt version 4.4.1 in /usr/lib

$ lupdate -version
lupdate version 4.4.1

I have a ui/ and a src/ folder. .ui filesare in ui/, and the .h ones and the rest of the code is in src/

Here's how the root .pro looks like:

QT += webkit
SUBDIRS += src
TEMPLATE = subdirs
CONFIG += uic-qt4 \
warn_on \
qt \
thread

FORMS = ui/alias_widget.ui
TRANSLATIONS = mudlet_fr.ts

And the .pro in src/ folder:

QT += webkit \
network
SOURCES += mudlet.cpp \
TConsole.cpp \
ctelnet.cpp \
cmccp.cpp \
main.cpp \
dlgConnectionProfiles.cpp
HEADERS += mudlet.h \
TConsole.h \
ctelnet.h \
cmccp.h \
dlgConnectionProfiles.h

TEMPLATE = app
CONFIG += warn_on \
thread \
qt
TARGET = mudlet
RESOURCES = application.qrc
DISTFILES += test

I did use qmake, qmake-qt4, then lupdate on the root .pro, but no .ts still. Not sure what am I doing wrong.

[jacek]

AFAIR the subdirs template doesn't use FORMS and TRANSLATIONS variables. Move them to that second .pro file.

[jpn]

A subdir project doesn't compile anything. This stuff belongs to the .pro in the src/ folder:

FORMS = ui/alias_widget.ui
TRANSLATIONS = mudlet_fr.ts

FORMS = ui/alias_widget.ui
TRANSLATIONS = mudlet_fr.ts

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[Vadi]

Thank you wysota, jacek, and jpn. It works now.