[Qgis-developer] plugin translation

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 20-03-16 18:21, matteo wrote:
> Hi all (again),
> as I'm continue to working on the translation of the plugin I've find
> out a little problem.
> 
> All the DIALOG windows of the plugin are translatable (and I can easily
> do that with Qt Linguist) but all the plugin MENUS (and submenus) don't
> appear to be in the my_plugin_it.ts file.
> 
> All this "voices" are in the my_plugin.py file (so the main plugin file)
> under the *initGui* function, for example:
> 
> 
> self.actionProgramLocations = QAction( "&Program &Locations",
> self.iface.mainWindow())
> 
> even if in the my_plugin.pro file within the i18n directory I specified
> that the main file should be included: (that's my pro file):
> 
> FORMS = ../ui/*
> 
> SOURCES = ../my_plugin.py
> 
> TRANSLATIONS = my_plugin_it.ts
> 
> 
> Am I missing something? Or should I specify more details in the .pro file?

Hi Matteo,
does your plugin have something as a helper function like this one
(created by the plugin builder):

https://github.com/rduivenvoorde/sectorplot/blob/master/SectorPlot/sectorplot.py#L174

This is the 'magic' that makes it know to Qt that a certain string is to
be translated, see for example:

https://github.com/rduivenvoorde/sectorplot/blob/master/SectorPlot/sectorplot.py#L275

Without this your ts file will only contain the strings from your ui
files I think.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde