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authorLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2023-01-18 15:53:26 +0100
committerLeena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>2023-01-25 18:08:36 +0100
commit6972cf37228a9808ed225915b1fc4e38ff17b06a (patch)
treef51941512a8f82cc14577faf3fb7eab44af62761 /src
parentaa551eebb5c276b0ee80a9b77b45715789e6f41a (diff)
Doc: Link to lupdate instructions instead of specifying the command
When building with CMake, you now build the lupdate target to run lupdate. Change-Id: I72ab7bbc0a013f23c38bc04cdcd543e03feff65e Reviewed-by: Joerg Bornemann <joerg.bornemann@qt.io>
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-rw-r--r--src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/righttoleft.qdoc24
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/righttoleft.qdoc b/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/righttoleft.qdoc
index 330de14511..722d7b747b 100644
--- a/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/righttoleft.qdoc
+++ b/src/quick/doc/src/concepts/positioning/righttoleft.qdoc
@@ -114,27 +114,25 @@ The painting of these icons can be mirrored with a dedicated \c mirror property:
\section1 Default Layout Direction
-The \l {QtQml::Qt::application}{Qt.application.layoutDirection} property can be used to query the active layout direction of the
-application. It is based on QGuiApplication::layoutDirection(), which most commonly determines the layout
-direction from the active language translation file.
+Use the \l {QtQml::Qt::application}{Qt.application.layoutDirection} property
+to query the active layout direction of the application. It inherits
+QGuiApplication::layoutDirection(), which determines the layout direction from
+the active language translation file.
-To define the layout direction for a particular locale, declare the dedicated string literal
-\c QT_LAYOUT_DIRECTION in context \c QGuiApplication as either "LTR" or "RTL".
+To define the layout direction for a particular locale, declare the dedicated
+string literal \c QT_LAYOUT_DIRECTION in the context \c QGuiApplication as
+either \c LTR or \c RTL.
-You can do this by first introducing this line
+First, introduce this line somewhere in your QML source code:
\code
qsTr("QT_LAYOUT_DIRECTION","QGuiApplication");
\endcode
-somewhere in your QML source code and calling \c lupdate to generate the translation source file.
+Then use \l {Using lupdate} to generate the translation source file.
-\code
-lupdate myapp.qml -ts myapp.ts
-\endcode
-
-This will append the following declaration to the translation file, where you can fill in either "LTR" or
-"RTL" as the translation for the locale.
+This appends the following declaration to the translation file, where you can
+enter either \c LTR or \c RTL as the translation for the locale.
\code
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