A begginer question

Guys...

A simple question that probably a few of you had when you first started...

If I have a Player.Prefs storing an option for the languaje selection...(i.e English / Spanish) and after that selection I have to display 2 GUI buttons, let´s say YES / NO vs SI / NO; after I define the button (if (GUI.Button, etc), where I have to put the text that is going to be inside of it, can I open a {, put an if and the var with the Player.Prefs stored there? or it has to be placed prior to the GUI button instance? (does it make sense?)

Thanks!

 

Can you try that again , Im not entirely sure what your trying to after the language selection

 

Sure... I want to know if somethin like this is possible:

Code (CSharp):

1. If (GUI.Button(new Rect(0,0,10,10), {
2. if (lSel ==1)"SOUND";
3. if (lSel ==2)"SONIDO";
4. }))
5. {}
6.  

(lSel is the var where I have stored the PlayerPrefs)

Instead of if (lSel ==1) >> define GUI.Button
And if (lSel ==2) >> define GUI.Button again

 

Localisation should be data focused, not hardcoded. If you had a localisation system which loaded a file, with a key string and a key value pair, you use that to set the string.

LocalisationSystem.GetNamedString(mySoundStringKey);

Obviously writing that system will be a lot of work, but it's well worth it. Plus, you can then use it for any other game you make

 

I +1 what A.Killingbeck is saying. To expand on that I'd create two XML files that holds string information in fragments

Example:

GameName_UI_ENG.xml
<fragment fragmentId="startGame">
<text>Start Game</text>
</fragment>

GameName_UI_ESP.xml
<fragment fragmentId="startGame">
<text>Iniciar Juego</text>
</fragment>

then write a method that pulls data from XmlDocument.

 

are you trying to select and language and then a yes and No buttons to either confirm selection or close and select again??

 

I`m C# only but this is what I would do , but again im not sure exactly what your trying

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class LanguageSelectionExample : MonoBehaviour {
5.  
6.     int              languageSelection;
7.  
8.     bool             drawSpanish = false, drawEnglish = false;
9.  
10.     const string     _myLanguage  = "myLanguage";
11.  
12.     public GUIStyle  englishLanguageSelectionButton,spanishLanguageSelectionButton;
13.  
14.  
15.     void Start () {
16.  
17.    languageSelection  = PlayerPrefs.GetInt ("myLanguage",0);
18.  
19.         if (languageSelection == 2) {
20.             drawEnglish = true;
21.         } else {
22.             drawEnglish = false;
23.         }
24.        
25.         if (languageSelection == 3) {
26.             drawSpanish = true;
27.         } else {
28.             drawSpanish = false;
29.         }
30.  
31.    
32.     }
33.  
34.     void Update () {
35.  
36.         }
37.  
38.  
39.  
40.     void OnGUI()
41.  
42.     {
43.  
44.         if (Application.loadedLevel == 0)
45.        
46.         {
47.             GUI.skin.button = englishLanguageSelectionButton;
48.             if (GUI.RepeatButton (new Rect (Screen.width / 2.75f, Screen.height / 5f, Screen.width / 3.8f, Screen.height / 6.3f), "")) {
49.                
50.                 PlayerPrefs.SetInt ("myLanguage", 2);
51.                 PlayerPrefs.Save ();
52.                 Application.LoadLevel (2);
53.                
54.             }
55.  
56.             GUI.skin.button = spanishLanguageSelectionButton;
57.             if (GUI.RepeatButton (new Rect (Screen.width / 2.75f, Screen.height / 1.5f, Screen.width / 3.8f, Screen.height / 6.3f), "")) {
58.                
59.                 PlayerPrefs.SetInt ("myLanguage", 3);
60.                 PlayerPrefs.Save ();
61.                 Application.LoadLevel (3);
62.             }
63.  
64.         }
65.  
66.         if (Application.loadedLevel == 1)
67.         {
68.             if (drawEnglish == true)
69.             {
70.  
71.             }
72.            
73.             if (drawSpanish == true)
74.             {
75.  
76.             }
77.  
78.  
79.         }
80.  
81.  
82.     }
83.  
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100.  
101.  
102. }
103.  

 

Dublinjonny,

I believe he's trying to implement a feature to change the language on the entire application and asking for help on how he would handle hot-swapping the text from language to language.

Moreover, your reply is still an example of hardcoding localization handlers. Not to mention being a nightmare to add or remove languages. A more practical example would be to load up a language file dynamically:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. //Be sure to import xml libs----
3. using system.xml;
4. //------------------------------------------
5.  
6. XMLDocument LangFile;
7.  
8. void Start(){
9.     //Make sure you can load the correct language file needed for the application
10.     if(bGetLangConfig()){
11.         //Continue with other stuff
12.     }
13. }
14.  
15. bool bGetLangConfig(){
16.     try{
17.         string sysLang = PlayerPrefs.GetString("Language");
18.  
19.         //Load the language file
20.         LangFile =  XmlDocument.Load("[Resources]/languageConfigs/"+sysLang+".xml");
21.     }catch(err){
22.        //stuff
23.     }
24. }
25. string getText(string nodeName){
26.     if(LangFile != null){
27.        return LangFile.GetElementById(nodeName);
28.     }else{
29.         return "";
30.     }
31. }
32.  
33. void OnGUI(){
34.     GUI.Button(someRect,getText("startGame"));
35. }
36.  

It's worth noting that I skipped some necessary xml steps pertinent to loading and reading docs to save on time and space. But I assume you can just fish around the MSDN to find them.