Trouble with text translation

[chianti-ga]

Hi, I wanted to use the Slint translation system by following the documentation (https://slint.dev/releases/1.1.1/docs/slint/src/concepts/translations).

Unfortunately I can't get the strings translated, I also followed the "gallery" example (https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/blob/master/examples/gallery/) without success.

I checked to see if it was my code that was the problem, but to my great surprise, when I cloned the "gallery" exemple, the string translation didn't appear either.

I'm verry confused, does anyone have anyclue on what i'm doing wrong?
I appreciate any help, thanks in advance.

(I'm sorry for any mistakes or misunderstandings, English isn't my first language.)

Here's the projects files:
project.zip

[tronical]

Hi! Are you running your app on Linux? What do you see if you try to run locale, LANG=fr_FR.utf-8 locale, and locale -a on the command line?

If you don't see any translations then in my experience (after trying this) it's sometimes related to setlocale() failing, because it's missing the locale definitions.

[tronical]

I also tried your example now and it works for me on macOS if I set LANG=fr, with one caveat:

In your src/main.rs you initialise the base directory for your translations to be next to the executable:

slint::init_translations!(std::env::current_exe().unwrap().parent().unwrap().join("lang"));

If I run with cargo run, the executable will be in target/debug/gmod_3d_packager and consequently slint will try to look for translations target/debug/lang - which doesn't exist.

You can either copy the executable out of there into the root, or (for the purpose of development) use

slint::init_translations!(concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/lang/"));

[chianti-ga]

Thanks, it now works perfectly under linux but not under windows, any idea why?

[tronical]

Unfortunately, gettext on Windows is a little trickier and it doesn't work out of the box :( I've filed #3307 with some details.