Dynamic multilangual re-evaluation of qml Text in C++ using qsTr() function in qml

V-Play-db

Hi everyone,

I would like to know if there is any possibility to use qsTr() or it's functionality in C++ to re-evaluate a qml Text element via C++ instead of the approach suggested in this article when changing the language of the application. http://qt-project.org/wiki/How_to_do_dynamic_translation_in_QML

The qml text element which gets translated with the according .qm file to different languages.
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Text {
text: qsTr("Hello World")
onTextChanged: console.debug(text)
}
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Somewhere after loading the new language file, I get the according text element and try to translate the new text manually via c++ but in general the textTranslated is never translated correctly! It is always the origin text - because no translation was found.

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// ... loading the new translation file

if(m_translator->load(languageFile, filePath)) {
    qApp->installTranslator(m_translator);
}

// ...

QObject *child = children.at(i); // the text element object
QString textContent = child->property("text").toString();
QString textTranslated = child->tr(qPrintable(textContent)); // returns textContent
//QString textTranslated = child->parent()->tr(qPrintable(textContent)); // returns textContent
//QString textTranslated = m_translator->translate(child->metaObject()->className(),qPrintable(textContent));  // returns ""
//QString textTranslated = QApplication::translate(child->metaObject()->className(),textContent.toStdString().c_str()); // returns textContent
qDebug() << "[Translator] text" << qPrintable(textContent) << " of element " << child << textTranslated;
child->setProperty("text",textTranslated);

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The translate functions need a context - which is char* - as first parameter, but I don't really know which content this might be, because I assume the qml object content would be something different.

I didn't found any implementation of qsTr() neither in the source code nor in the web. It this a real function or only a makro for the Linguist. How does the translation process work anyway?

Cheers,
David