Linguist not showing ID in ID-based mode

Dialecticus

I want to used ID-based localization in my CMAKE project. If I just call qtTrId("id-example") the Linguist will show a rather useless line "? ? <header file>". If there are ten such lines I can't figure out what am I translating (unless I edit the file in some text editor). So I am forced to repeat the ID in the code:

//: id-example
QString e = qtTrId("id-example");

Is there a way to make the Linguist show the ID? Why would Linguist hide this essential information? Qt is in version 6.6.3.

Dialecticus

Two weeks passed without a response. Is this a known issue that gets asked all the time? Is there no way to see the ID in the Linguist?

Christian Ehrlicher

A simple main.cpp with a qtTrId() works fine here.
Please provide a minimal, compilable example of your problem.

SimonSchroeder

@Dialecticus said in Linguist not showing ID in ID-based mode:

Two weeks passed without a response.

I guess that a lot of people are not using id-based translations (I personally don't). Therefore, there are not many who can speak from experience.

Dialecticus

So, I investigated the matter. I have LUPDATE_OPTIONS -locations none in CMakeLists.txt. I have to have it. The Linguist freezes if I click on any visual context. This is a known issue in Windows. But my question is not why I don't see the location of the resource. I don't care for location, hence the LUPDATE_OPTIONS option. The question is why I don't see the identifier of the resource.

jobor

The translation ID is indeed not visible if locations are disabled. I've created https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-129392 to track this.

The "Linguist hangs on Windows issue" (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-127139) is fixed for 6.8.0, which will be released soon.

Two workarounds for QTBUG-127139 come to mind:
Remove the QtWebView via the installer or install a separate Qt build without this plugin (e.g., a MinGW build of Qt).

Use Linguist from that QtWebView-less Qt and remove the -locations none option. Then you should see translation IDs in all their glory.

gongotar

A fix for the visibility of translation IDs in Linguist is pushed to the version 6.8. If you upgrade your Linguist to 6.8, you should be able to see the translation IDs in Linguist.