Qt translation get original string

[MartinD]

Hi,
I want to log a message without translating it and also I want to display translated message to user. Is it possible to achieve this and at the same time register the string to Qt translating system?

Bad - This causes message not to be registered by Qt translating system:

QString message = "Message";
log(message);
showMessageToUser(tr(message));

Bad - This duplicates the string

log("Message");
showMessageToUser(tr("Message"));

Bad - This logs translated version of the message - I want non translated.

QString message = tr("Message");
log(message);
showMessageToUser(message);

[kshegunov]

@MartinD
As far as I know, the second "bad" is the least bad of all as it actually works. I think you're stuck with it.

[Chris Kawa]

It's not as convenient as the tr() function but you can use the QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP macro for this. For example:

void logIt(const char* str)
{
   log(str);
   showMessageToUser(qApp->translate("", str));
}

Use it like this:

logIt(QT_TRANSLATE_NOOP("", "Hello world!"));

[Trian]

@Chris-Kawa That works well in both c++ and qml. Thanks