Translation problem

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi all…

I’m just about to localize one of my apps in Korean and Japanese. Translation seems easy enough with generic text strings, using a ‘required table’, but I can’t seem to adapt that way of thinking to widgets!

Basically, I can’t localize my widget-button labels. Does anyone have any experience of this, or can you point me to a decent resource.

Thanks

#2

Were exactly are you stuck with this.  

I don’t use button widgets very often, but from what I remember they are something like this:

local button = widget.newButton { width = 100, height = 50, defaultFile = "buttonDefault.png", overFile = "buttonOver.png", label = "my button text", onEvent = myButtonEvent }

Instead of providing a literal string, just do something like this:

local buttonStrings = { en = "my button text", fr = "mon texte du bouton", it = "il mio testo del pulsante", de = "meine Button-Text", es = "mi texto del botón", ko = "내 단추 텍스트", jp = "私のボタンのテキスト", } --get the user's 2 letter language code local usersLanguage = system.getPreference("ui", "language") --make it's lower case usersLanguage = string.lower( usersLanguage ) --just use first 2 letters, in case they have a regional dialect if string.len(usersLanguage) \> 2 then usersLanguage = string.sub(usersLanguage, 1, 2) end local button = widget.newButton { width = 100, height = 50, defaultFile = "buttonDefault.png", overFile = "buttonOver.png", label = buttonStrings[usersLanguage], onEvent = myButtonEvent }

The label reads from a table of potential phrases, and picks the correct one based on the user’s language.

Since I don’t always use regional dialects (e.g. en-gb, en-us), I just use the first 2 characters in the language code.

#3

Thanks a bundle, Mr plantpot, that works a treat… I was just struggling with [stuff that goes in here] and how to bring it into the label.

I also have a few graphic elements in my game, that it would be nice to localise… For example, there’s a newspaper on the floor in a particular scene (the headline is in english). It would be nice to swap out images, based on ‘system.getPreference’, but I’ve not worked that out yet either.

Thanks again. Really helpful.

M

#4

…Just as an addition to this thread, because I’m pretty sure it will be useful to lots more Developers…

Different languages look better in different fonts. Just wondering if you can assign a font to a language pref’… If so, how? Hmmm

#5

Were exactly are you stuck with this.  

I don’t use button widgets very often, but from what I remember they are something like this:

local button = widget.newButton { width = 100, height = 50, defaultFile = "buttonDefault.png", overFile = "buttonOver.png", label = "my button text", onEvent = myButtonEvent }

Instead of providing a literal string, just do something like this:

local buttonStrings = { en = "my button text", fr = "mon texte du bouton", it = "il mio testo del pulsante", de = "meine Button-Text", es = "mi texto del botón", ko = "내 단추 텍스트", jp = "私のボタンのテキスト", } --get the user's 2 letter language code local usersLanguage = system.getPreference("ui", "language") --make it's lower case usersLanguage = string.lower( usersLanguage ) --just use first 2 letters, in case they have a regional dialect if string.len(usersLanguage) \> 2 then usersLanguage = string.sub(usersLanguage, 1, 2) end local button = widget.newButton { width = 100, height = 50, defaultFile = "buttonDefault.png", overFile = "buttonOver.png", label = buttonStrings[usersLanguage], onEvent = myButtonEvent }

The label reads from a table of potential phrases, and picks the correct one based on the user’s language.

Since I don’t always use regional dialects (e.g. en-gb, en-us), I just use the first 2 characters in the language code.

#6

Thanks a bundle, Mr plantpot, that works a treat… I was just struggling with [stuff that goes in here] and how to bring it into the label.

I also have a few graphic elements in my game, that it would be nice to localise… For example, there’s a newspaper on the floor in a particular scene (the headline is in english). It would be nice to swap out images, based on ‘system.getPreference’, but I’ve not worked that out yet either.

Thanks again. Really helpful.

M

#7

…Just as an addition to this thread, because I’m pretty sure it will be useful to lots more Developers…

Different languages look better in different fonts. Just wondering if you can assign a font to a language pref’… If so, how? Hmmm