Help with QTranslator

[aarelovich]

Hi:

I'm trying my hand at a little internationalization and I wanted to start with a simple app and two languages: english and spanish. I managed to succesfully load the spanish packet and saw everything in my application as it should. Next I wanted to implement a bit of code so that the user could choose the language at the program startup since changing it on the fly is apparently pretty complicated. Since I only had two options I tried this in main.cpp.

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);    
    LanguageDialog diag; \\
    diag.exec(); \\
    if (diag.shouldTranslate()){\\
        QTranslator translator;
        translator.load(QString("mastermind_es"));
        a.installTranslator(&translator);
    }\\
    Mastermind w;
    w.show();
    return a.exec();
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);    
    LanguageDialog diag; \\
    diag.exec(); \\
    if (diag.shouldTranslate()){\\
        QTranslator translator;
        translator.load(QString("mastermind_es"));
        a.installTranslator(&translator);
    }\\
    Mastermind w;
    w.show();
    return a.exec();
}

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And it doesn't work. Nothing gets translated no matter what I choose and I've allready checked, I effectively enter the if sentence in spanish is chosen in the diag object.
If the lines with a \\ are commented then I get my app translated (everytime) obviously.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for any help in advance.

[aarelovich]

So I've kind of answered my own question.

The problem is that in the code I wrote the translator object only exists in the scope of the if sentence so that when it exists it dissapears.

The problem was solved by simply declaring it like this:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);    
    LanguageDialog diag; \\
    diag.exec(); \\
    QTranslator translator;
    if (diag.shouldTranslate()){\\        
        translator.load(QString("mastermind_es"));
        a.installTranslator(&translator);
    }\\
    Mastermind w;
    w.show();
    return a.exec();
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);    
    LanguageDialog diag; \\
    diag.exec(); \\
    QTranslator translator;
    if (diag.shouldTranslate()){\\        
        translator.load(QString("mastermind_es"));
        a.installTranslator(&translator);
    }\\
    Mastermind w;
    w.show();
    return a.exec();
}

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