Q:

tr() function not working anymore migrating from Qt 4 to Qt 5

I have an application where the translator is installed successfully in the usual way:
bool bSuccess = qApp->installTranslator(m_translator);

Where m_translator is a pointer to a class derived from QTranslator.
When the application is compiled with Qt 4.7.4 all the following instructions work fine:

QString qTranslString = m_translator->translate("", "string_to_be_translated");
QString qTranslString = QCoreApplication::translate("", "string_to_be_translated");
QString qTranslString = tr("string_to_be_translated");

But when the same application, same project settings, is compiled with Qt 5.2.1, on Windows or Linux, only number 1 is working. The other two are not calling the translate method of m_translator.
Here is a minimal example for reproducing the problem:
minimalpbm.pro:
greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4) {
    QT += widgets
}

TARGET = minimalpbm
TEMPLATE = app

SOURCES += main.cpp
HEADERS += mytranslator.h

mytranslator.h:
#include <QTranslator>

class MyTranslator : public QTranslator
{
    Q_OBJECT

public:
    explicit MyTranslator(QObject *parent = 0);
    ~MyTranslator();

    bool isEmpty() const;
    QString translate(const char *context, const char *sourceText, const char *comment = 0) const;

private:
};

main.cpp:
#include <QApplication>
#include <QMainWindow>
#include "mytranslator.h"

MyTranslator::MyTranslator(QObject *parent) : QTranslator(parent)
{
}

MyTranslator::~MyTranslator()
{
}

bool MyTranslator::isEmpty() const
{
    return false;
}

QString MyTranslator::translate(const char* /*context*/, const char* sourceText, const char* /*comment*/) const
{
    QString translation;

    (void) sourceText;

    translation = "Window Title";                           // No matter what the source text is we return the same translation for test

    return translation;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication qA(argc, argv);

    QMainWindow qW;                                         // Create main window

    MyTranslator *m_translator = new MyTranslator(&qW);     // Install translator
    qApp->installTranslator(m_translator);

    qW.setWindowTitle(qW.tr("ST_TITLE"));                   // Set title 
    qW.show();                                              // Show main window

    return qA.exec();                                       // Main event loop
}

With Qt4 the window title is "Window Title",
with Qt5 the window title is "ST_TITLE".
Any hints?
Thank you very much in advance!

A:

Does MyTranslator::translate still override a QTranslator virtual method? When reading QT 5.2.0 documentation, the method you want to override was removed. I would suggest to try to override the translate method with 4 parameters instead of 3, so translate(const char *context, const char *sourceText, const char *disambiguation = Q_NULLPTR, int n = -1) const. Also put the override keyword behind it, so that the compiler will warn you for such issues.

