[SailfishDevel] Dynamic QML refresh (localization)

[Андрей Кожевников]

i had no problem using
https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_do_dynamic_translation_in_QML after disabling
default sailfishapp translations

пн, 27 мая 2019 г. в 11:57, jerome levreau <levreau.jerome at vostoksystem.eu>:

> I came to the same issue I while time ago, also not being able (at least
> easily) to dynamically choose a key/translation at run time. I found no
> solution to those problems, adding lupdate/xml made me crazy I gave up and
> made/switched to my own translation api.
> It uses key/value with mozilla properties file and it's full dynamics,
> that really close to the solution on java software. You can switch language
> at run time too (see the sample) I'm using it on Muuzik! Mem and Footo!
> app. Here the git :
>
> https://github.com/vostoksystem/vi18n
>
> there a pri lib and a full sailfish sample app.
>
> Le lun. 27 mai 2019 à 09:53, Joona Petrell <joona.petrell at jolla.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Hi Tamas,
>>
>> Dynamic translations are tricky thing to accomplish in Qt. There is some
>> support in Qt to accomplish dynamic language change inside a Qt app, but
>> Qt-based platforms are a different story. Currently the work effort of
>> allow language change during runtime for a full platform like Sailfish OS
>> is too large to justify the investment.
>>
>> Apps normally follow platform system language, which when changed
>> unfortunately currently does a full system reboot (though could be improved
>> to only restart the system UI / desktop environment). If you provided
>> settings in-app to choose different language than the system you might be
>> able to get some kind of dynamic translation setup to work, though if you
>> are using Silica UI components those probably pull in some translations of
>> their own and may not work with the dynamic translation setup.
>>
>> Br,
>>
>> Joona
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Devel [devel-bounces at lists.sailfishos.org] on behalf of Андрей
>> Кожевников [coderusinbox at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* 27 May 2019 10:41
>> *To:* Sailfish OS Developers
>> *Subject:* Re: [SailfishDevel] Dynamic QML refresh (localization)
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> You should not use sailfishapp translations, because you won't be able to
>> uninstall translator for default system language:
>>
>> https://github.com/sailfishos/libsailfishapp/blob/master/src/sailfishapp_priv.cpp#L107
>>
>> You can copy prf content to your pro file and install translations to
>> different folder, not translations one, so sailfishapp wont preload default
>> translator
>>
>> https://github.com/sailfishos/libsailfishapp/blob/master/data/sailfishapp_i18n.prf
>>
>> вс, 26 мая 2019 г. в 23:39, Tamas Miklos <uusi at freemail.hu>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> Is it possible to dynamically update QML strings after a language change
>>> initiated by the user from the Settings page of my app?  In QT there's a
>>> QqmlEngine::retranslate() call, but I couldn't find a way to use that from
>>> a Sailfish app.  I've found the following page as well, but it seems way
>>> too overkill to my liking :)
>>>
>>> https://wiki.qt.io/How_to_do_dynamic_translation_in_QML
>>>
>>> I've also found some apps to use the PageStack replace trick to refresh
>>> an already rendered QML page after language change, but it also seems too
>>> quirky to me.
>>>
>>> Please let me know what's the best way to achieve a user-friendly way of
>>> changing language of my app on-the-fly.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tamas (author of AIDA64 for Sailfish)
>>>
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