[Qt-creator] Linguist

[Coda Highland]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Frédéric Marchal
<frederic.marchal at wowtechnology.com> wrote:
> 2016-03-09 20:55 GMT+01:00 Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com>:
>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > is there any good reason why linguist is not configured as a standard
>>> > external tool? I'd like to add it.
>>>
>>> You can open a .ts file in Qt Linguist with “Open with... > Qt Linguist” (e.g. from the project tree, file system view, or from the document menu next to the file name above the editor (when it is already opened in an editor).
>>
>> I think his problem (and mine) is that it should be under Tools > External > Linguist. Right now your only two options are lupdate and lrelease. The GUI should be invokable from that last menu.
>
> You can add it yourself.
>
> Click on Tools / External / Configure...
>
> Add a "Linguist" entry running
> %{CurrentProject:QT_INSTALL_BINS}\linguist.exe on Windows or
> %{CurrentProject:QT_INSTALL_BINS}/linguist.exe on Linux.
>
> If the ts files are in the project directory, you may also want to set
> the "Working directory" to %{CurrentProject:Path}. With this trick,
> Linguist will directly show the directory with the ts files when you
> click on File / Open.
>
> Frederic
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The question is why it's not there by default.

/s/ Adam