Question on translations and .ts files

[Marc_Van_Daele]

My current .ts file looks like

<context>
    <name>A</name>
    <message>
        <location filename="A.qml" line="10"/>
        <source>History</source>
        <translation>Historique</translation>
    </message>

I note that qsTr("History")

• translates fine in A.qml, line 10
• translates fine in A.qml, any other line
• does not translate in B.qml (there is no entry yet in the .ts file for B)

Is this expected behavior?

[J.Hilk]

@Marc_Van_Daele said in Question on translations and .ts files:

Is this expected behavior?

yes it is,

each source file (c++ or qml) has it's own contextblock

by running lupdate on your project, a context block will be created for b . Then there will be an automatic check for similar heuristics, and the translation in A will be detected and preselected for you.

IIRC running lrelease now will result in A and B being correctly translated, even without confirming the preselected translation before via (Qt)Linguist

[Marc_Van_Daele]

Thanks for confirming and explaining!