I18n how to?

[onekk]

I'm driving mad in i18n with Pyside. I followed some tutorials but have some problem in tranlsating some QmessageBox dialog and some other parts of the project.

There is a manner to put most the strings in external py file and import it in the app and translating all the hard to translate string here.

as example if i do

import messages ad MS

and refer to them as MS.msg001 in the code so i have i translated as simple string in the messages.py file?

Thanks to all

Carlo D.

[Tripanarium]

I believe that you could create QTranslate() strings and use them after.
Did you take a look to the format function?
@
myBestMessage = QtGui.QApplication.translate("TestSoft", "This is my secret: <br>{0}<br>Do you like it?", None)

When you use it make something like:

mySecret = "1234ABCDE...."
myResult = myBestMessage.format(mySecret)
@
Remember that translations should hardcoded (that's what I thing I've heard of).

[onekk]

Many Thanks, I've solved putting them in the init part of the class so they are translated properly and refer to these messages in a derived QMessageBox, some QmessageBox fails About seems to work but Question (i didn't remember well fails to translate properly the messages).

      @
   
    self.toolcyl = self.tr("Cylindrical")
    self.toolsph = self.tr("Spherical (Ball)")        
    self.tooltor = self.tr("Toroidal (Bull)") 
    self.toolcon = self.tr("Conical") 

    glb.shape[0] = self.toolcyl
    glb.shape[1] = self.toolsph
    glb.shape[2] = self.tooltor
    glb.shape[3] = self.toolcon

    # End of the tool shapes definition        
    #
    ######################################################################

    EC_L.readTooltable(self)
    EC_UA.populateUI(self)
    
    ######################################################################        
    #        
    # Translatable string goes here i didn't find a method to make it 
    # work flawlessy in some QMessageBox 
    #
    ######################################################################

    # Exit Dialog        
    self.msg_01t = self.tr("<b>Exit Dialog</b>")
    self.msg_01m = self.tr("Are You sure you want to exit?")

    # About EuroCAM Box
    self.msg_02t = self.tr("About ")
    self.msg_02m = self.tr("<b>SomeProgram</b> is a program. <br> \
                   <br> It generates some output to help you in \
                   figuring out the life, the universe and all other things.")        

    # @

I'm using them in the About widget without too many problem like this:

@QMessageBox.about(self,self.msg_02t,self.msg_02m) @

For the others MessageBox i have written a def like this:

@
def closeEvent(self, event):
msgBox = QMessageBox()
msgBox.setText(self.msg_01t)
msgBox.setInformativeText(self.msg_01m)
msgBox.setStandardButtons(QMessageBox.Yes | QMessageBox.Cancel)
msgBox.setDefaultButton(QMessageBox.Yes)
msgBox.setIcon(QMessageBox.Question)
ret = msgBox.exec_()
event.ignore()
if ret == QMessageBox.Yes:
# Do Something
event.accept()
elif ret == QMessageBox.Cancel:
event.ignore()@

In this manner it works as expected and if you note in the first lines of the examples i have translate some messages that are referenced in another module of the program. After struggling with this behavior I have found this solution that isn't too bad and not too unelegant, but the readability of the code suffers a little.

Regards
Carlo D.