[Interest] Lovely Arabic/Persian layout challenges

[mark diener]

Hello List:

There seems to be a better option, sometimes just staring at me in the
face, right in the docs.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtquick-layoutmirroring.html#details

More news on its effectiveness.

Cheers.

md

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:55 AM, mark diener <rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello List:
>
> Has anybody come across how to control right to left languages with
> respect to alignment application wide.
>
> http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qguiapplication.html#layoutDirection-prop
>
> In my case, I need to project arabic along with english.
>
> But the shifting of left to right layout and right to left
> is not just individual component level, but application wide
> and dynamic based on language toggling.
> QApplication->setLayoutDirection() seems to have little effect
> on QML Text
>
> For example:
>
> النقاط MMX:
>
> When displayed in QML app mixes up the stored string
> and re-arranges it:
>
> :MMX النقاط
>
> Now, that means we actually need the Text QML objects themselves to mirror
> to follow along with layout.
>
> What would be wonderful is application wide layout mirroring where if we
> have a left to right language installed, the entire QML inventory could be
> virtually swapped to support it and thus not require a Left to Right and
> Right to Left layout for all the nicely positioned QML components that were
> designed with left to right to start with.
>
> If you have 50 QML layouts, that is a lot of work to get it looking good
> with Arabic AND English unless you dedicate a separate set of QML inventory
> to support Right to Left.
>
> Any body have some reflections and/or tips on this?
>
> Especially anybody from Arabic part of the community.
>
>
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