[QGIS-Developer] translate plugin gui and log messages

[Jonas]

You can just use the pylupdate5 script, its in 
%OSGeo4Win%\apps\Python37\Scripts

It loads your .pro file and creates the .ts files which you can open in 
QtLinguist. After translating you release within QtLinguist to a .qm file.

See: 
https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins.html?highlight=plugin#ts-file


jonas


On 19.06.2019 20:01, C Hamilton wrote:
> I am also interested in how you do this on Windows because I had a 
> request to add translation ability to the Shape Tools plugin, but 
> these instructions don't seem to include anything for Windows.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Calvin
>
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 2:24 AM matteo <matteo.ghetta at gmail.com 
> <mailto:matteo.ghetta at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Roberta,
>
>     well the process is pretty easy and straightforward.
>
>     I use the Makefile to manage all the process [0].
>
>     Basically the steps are:
>
>     * adding a list to locales in the Makefile, like: LOCALES = en it nl
>     * always in the Makefile add all the paths to the files that contains
>     the string you want to translate (managed by the self.tr
>     <http://self.tr>() method):
>
>     SOURCES = \
>             __init__.py \
>             plugin.py plugin_dialog.py
>
>     UI_FILES = plugin_base.ui
>
>     * now you can use make transup to create the ts file in all the
>     languages
>     * translate using the software you prefer
>     * compile the ts in qm using make transcompile
>
>     That's it. Whenever you add/change something in the files/UI you
>     have to
>     run make transup again, translate, recompile
>
>     Cheers
>
>     Matteo
>
>
>
>     [0]
>     https://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins.html#translate-using-makefile
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