[Qt-interest] Handling translations in a multi-threaded server

[Konrad Rosenbaum]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 10:35, Tony Rietwyk wrote:
> I have multi-threaded servers that handle database queries from
> potentially many clients in many different countries (especially the
> European server).  The requests are processed via a thread pool.  Each
> request has the locale code for the translation file to be used by the
> IBase sql driver.
>
> The problem is that the IBase driver calls QApplication::translate for
> errors.  This implies all threads have to use the same translation file.
>
> How have others worked around this limitation?

I haven't done this yet, but I would pre-load QTranslator objects for all
languages, NOT install them in the QApplication object, and then call
QTranslator::translate with the untranslated string from the IBase driver.

I hope this wasn't too confusing...


    Konrad