I just redid the project with qmake an here everything works out of the box. Also adding an icon, which I was not able to do with the official documentation.

So I expect there is something wrong with the creation process of CMakeListe.txt?

@sailor.steve said in Lupdate and macros:

I wrapped the text in macros that need to be translated

In addition to @sierdzio response, please keep in mind that Qt translation tools use the "original" text as the key for looking the proper translation in the available loaded Qt translator object, and if such string is not found, that same string is displayed instead.

This is a little bit different from some other translation tools that use "constants" (i.e. macro?) as the key and then you provide a file with constant -> translation pairs.

What kind of text do you have that might be big enough to become a problem for your UI ?

@SGaist thanks. I'll try it there.

Another solution that not require hacking Qt is to alias QApplication::translate method:

inline QString myTr(const char* context, const char* key, const char* disambiguation = 0, int n = -1) { return QApplication::translate(context, key, disambiguation, n); }

and then get translated text with:

myTr("QShortcut", "Help");

Such texts are invisible for lupdate.