[PyQt] PyQt: tr() or translate()

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Sun Jul 26 21:27:02 BST 2009


Am Sonntag, 26. Juli 2009 schrieb Michał Klich:
> Dnia czwartek 23 lipca 2009 o 02:05:08 Hans-Peter Jansen napisał(a):
> > Am Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2009 schrieb Michał Klich:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to get some calrification on tr() and translate().
> > > On webpage
> > > http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/pyqt4ref.html#i
> > >nter nationalisation-of-pyqt-applicationsi found information that it
> > > is better to use
> > > QCoreApplication.translate()
> > > instead of tr().
> >
> > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt4/pyqt4ref.html#diffe
> >renc es-between-pyqt-and-qt
> >
> > > Looks like QT Designer is using same approach. Though i can not find
> > > any examples that would cover usage of QCoreApplication.translate(),
> > > like no one would use it
> >
> > Apart from the additional context AND the very important note above,
> > there's none.
> >
> > > Can someone please provide me with some additional info, some
> > > examples? Or maybe website i am refering to is out of date?
> > > I guess i could summarize my question, how do you create
> > > mutlilanguage apps?
> >
> > You will have to ask more precisely, if you really want helpful answers
> > - or even better, buy Mark Summerfields book "Rapid GUI Programming
> > with Python and Qt" - you won't regret it!
> >
> > Pete
> >
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>
> Thank you very much for this book. I have been looking around for some
> good books and actually skipped this one. You can't judge a book by its
> cover but i did.

I did judge it by its contents, and it's been a very long time that I 
enjoyed reading a technical book that much. Mark did a brillant job for one 
of the most underestimated technologies available today ;-).

Pete



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