UI string is too long for MSVC

[Lesiok]

Put the text to file in resources not in C++ code. Additional profit: you can edit the text in the HTML editor.

[lalesculiviu]

Put the text to file in resources not in C++ code. Additional profit: you can edit the text in the HTML editor.

Thank you! I don't really want to translate this large field, but I want all the strings in the application to be passed through tr(). I'll search how can I tr() the text from the resource file.

Could you details how to read the resource file? Store it as XML UTF-8, or as text? Read it line by line?

[Lesiok]

Something like this, if file name is thanks.txt (txt in UTF-8) and is located in main directory of resource file :

QFile file(":/Resources/thanks.txt");
file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
QByteArray my_txt = file.readAll();
file.close();
thanksToTextBrowser->setHtml(QApplication::translate(my_txt.constData()));

QFile file(":/Resources/thanks.txt");
file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
QByteArray my_txt = file.readAll();
file.close();
thanksToTextBrowser->setHtml(QApplication::translate(my_txt.constData()));

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Of course I'm talking about Qt resources.

[lalesculiviu]

Thank you! I learned some nice Qt code with this. But I think that lupdate will not extract the thanks.txt string correctly.

[Lesiok]

I do not think that adding such large text to QApplication::translate was a good idea. In my opinion, you should prepare separate txt files with the translated text and load the appropriate file.

[lalesculiviu]

I'll think about it. Thank you!

But maybe Qt code should care about these long strings for MSVC.

Note: I did not use directly the QApplication::translate. The file .\tmp\gui\ui_helpaboutform_template.h is generated automatically by Qt UIC, I only modify the file src/interface/helpaboutform_template.ui.