Load .qm file from resource

beecksche

Hi,
i try to load a .qm file from my resource:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    Q_INIT_RESOURCE(resource);

    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    QTranslator translator;

    if (translator.load(QLocale(), QLatin1String("qt"), QLatin1String("_"), QLatin1String(":/translations")))
        app.installTranslator(&translator);

    MainWindow w;
    w.showMaximized();

    return app.exec();
}

The resource.qrc

<RCC>
    <qresource prefix="/translations">
        <file>resources/qt_de.qm</file>
    </qresource>
</RCC>

But the load function always returns false.

Where is my mistake?
Thanks

mrjj

I would check what QLocale() returns
If you look here
http://wiki.qt.io/How_to_create_a_multi_language_application

They seem to use
QString defaultLocale = QLocale::system().name(); // e.g. "de_DE"
defaultLocale.truncate(defaultLocale.lastIndexOf('_')); // e.g. "de"

So maybe its just a syntax mismatch as QLocale() might return as "de_DE"
or something else.

kshegunov

Try QLatin1String(":/translations/resources") or alias the file location in the resource file.

beecksche

@mrjj , @kshegunov

So i tried it all, but the QTranslator won't load the file.

It's strange beacuase i can load and open the file with QFile.

    QFile file;
    file.setFileName(":/translations/resources/qt_de.qm");
    qDebug() << file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly); // true
    qDebug() << translator.load(":/translations/resources/qt_de.qm"); // false

kshegunov

@beecksche said in Load .qm file from resource:

qDebug() << translator.load("qt_de", ":/translations/resources");

?

beecksche

@kshegunov

My test results

QFile file;
file.setFileName(":/translations/resources/qt_de.qm");
qDebug() << file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
qDebug() << translator.load(QLatin1String(":/translations/resources/qt_de"));
qDebug() << translator.load(QLatin1String(":/translations/resources/qt_de.qm"));
qDebug() << translator.load(QLatin1String("qt_de"), QLatin1String(":/translations"));
qDebug() << translator.load(QLatin1String("qt_de"), QLatin1String(":/translations/resources"));
qDebug() << translator.load(QLocale(), QLatin1String("qt"), QLatin1String("_"), QLatin1String(":/translations"));
qDebug() << translator.load(QLocale(), QLatin1String("qt"), QLatin1String("_"), QLatin1String(":/translations/resources"));

true
false
false
false
false
false
false

kshegunov

Okay. That's information aplenty. Could you try the same, but without putting the translation into a resource? Put them in a regular directory and supply the absolute dir path instead of :/translations/resources?

beecksche

@kshegunov

QFile file;
file.setFileName("C:/Qt/Qt5.7.0_MSVC2013/5.7/msvc2013/translations/qt_de.qm");
qDebug() << file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
qDebug() << translator.load(QLatin1String("C:/Qt/Qt5.7.0_MSVC2013/5.7/msvc2013/translations/qt_de"));
qDebug() << translator.load(QLatin1String("C:/Qt/Qt5.7.0_MSVC2013/5.7/msvc2013/translations/qt_de.qm"));
qDebug() << translator.load(QLatin1String("qt_de"), QLatin1String("C:/Qt/Qt5.7.0_MSVC2013/5.7/msvc2013/translations"));
qDebug() << translator.load(QLocale(), QLatin1String("qt"), QLatin1String("_"), QLatin1String("C:/Qt/Qt5.7.0_MSVC2013/5.7/msvc2013/translations"));

true
false
false
true
true

If i use the file outside the resource i can load it!

raven-worx

@beecksche
the problem is the default compression of qrc.
QTranslator checks for qrc files and only loads them when they are uncompressed (don't ask me whats the reason for that is).

Try to add the following to your .pro file:

QMAKE_RESOURCE_FLAGS += -no-compress

beecksche

@raven-worx
Thanks for the information. I added

QMAKE_RESOURCE_FLAGS += -no-compress

Run qmake and build it again, but still not able to load it from resource.

VRonin

As a referense: nice article by @ekkescorner : https://appbus.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/howto-translations-i18n/

Try moving the .qm files in the main directory rather than the resources one and see if that works

raven-worx

@beecksche
can you try this workaround:

create a .rcc file with rcc -no-compress mytranslations.qrc -o mytranslations.rcc
add this .rcc file to your qrc file
load the .rcc file with

QFile translations(":/mytranslations.rcc");
translations.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
QResource::registerResource( (const uchar *)translations.readAll().constData() );
translator.load( ... );

jmg227

I am having the same problem. I found the following page
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linguist-programmers.html which describes using lconvert to create a qt_de.qm file with only the required modules, e.g.:

lconvert -o installation_folder/qt_de.qm qtbase_de.qm qtdeclarative_de.qm

I found that if I created the .qm file in my resource file this way, I could then load the qt translation from my resource file.

It is interesting that the size of qt_de.qm in C:/Qt/Qt5.7.0/5.7/mingw53_32/translations is 1 KB. The qt_de.qm that is generated by lconvert is 239 KB.

Dmitiy Tyugin

Probably the problem in prefix. Here are my files from working project

resources.qrc

<RCC>
    <qresource prefix="/">
        <file>assets/translations/language_ru.qm</file>
        <file>assets/translations/language_en.qm</file>
    </qresource>
</RCC>

Folders structure:

ProjectRoot/project.pro
ProjectRoot/resources.qrc
ProjectRoot/assets/translations/language_ru.qm
ProjectRoot/assets/translations/language_ru.qm

Code that works ok

QTranslator tr;
tr.load(":/assets/translations/language_ru.qm")

jmg227

I would like to clarify something. I do not think that the problem the original poster has is in the prefix. As I said, I believe I was having the same problem. My application's translation file, dwb_lang_de.qm, can be loaded by QTranslator without any problem. My problem came about when I tried to load Qt's translation file, qt_de.qm. If you look at the Qt translation files, (I'm running on windows so they are in C:\Qt\Qt5.7.0\5.7\mingw53_32\translations), you will see that qt_de.qm is suspiciously small. In fact, the Qt Linguist Manual (URL is above) states:
In Qt 5, the .qm files were split up by module and there is a so-called meta catalog file which includes the .qm files of all modules. The name of the meta catalog file is identical to the name of Qt 4's monolithic .qm file so that existing loader code works as before provided all included .qm files are found.

A solution is to use lconvert, as I suggested above, to build your own qt_de.qm that contains the strings for the modules that you need. This can then be added to your resource file and QTranslator can load it without any problem.

Since posting that, I have found that an alternate solution is to put all of the .qm files for Qt (assistant_cs.qm, assistant_da.qm, assistant_de.qm, ...) into your resource file. Then when you load the meta-file, qt_de.qm, it will load fine because it will find all the files it references.

Either method works fine.