[PyQt] multiple languages within the same application

[Samuele Carcagno]

On Monday 14 March 2011 21:15:17 David Boddie wrote:
> On Mon Mar 14 17:34:19 GMT 2011, Samuele Carcagno wrote:
> 
> > is it possible to have different parts of an application translated into
> > different languages? For example  say that an application has two buttons,
> > would it be possible to have the label of button1 translated in Italian and
> > the label of button2 translated in French?
> 
> Yes, it's possible.
> 
> > If it is possible, how would I go about it? The
> > QApplication.installTranslator() function seems to affect the application
> > globally, and I don't see an easy way to select a particular translator for
> > a specific widget or group of widgets.
> 
> You might find it interesting to look at the i18n example supplied with PyQt.
> It is located in the examples/tools/i18n directory.

Many thanks for the pointer, I think it will solve my problem, so what I can do to
have two strings translated in different languages is:

locale = "it_IT"
italianTranslator = QtCore.QTranslator()
italianTranslator.load("myapp_" + locale, ":/translations/")

locale = "fr_FR"
franchTranslator = QtCore.QTranslator()
frenchTranslator.load("myapp_" + locale, ":/translations/") 

button1.setText(italianTranslator.translate("", "Label 1")
button2.setText(frenchTranslator.translate("", "Label 2")


Sam


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