Hi there,
This is sort of the continuation of [a question I posted yesterday][1]. I am aware that many assets exist in the Unity Assets Store, but I would like to do it myself for knowledge sake and *"just do it, don't let your dreams be dreams"*.
I would like to support localization in my game, and I was mainly inspired by the Android localization format, meaning storing my strings into .xml files and getting them using a Language Loader :
using CustomDictionary = System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
public class LanguageLoader {
private CustomDictionary Strings;
private string DefaultString;
public LanguageLoader() {
this.Strings = new CustomDictionary();
this.DefaultString = null;
}
public void Clear() {
this.Strings.Clear();
}
public void Load(string path, string countryCode) {
XmlDocument xmlDocument;
XmlElement rootElement, element;
IEnumerator elementEnumerator;
xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
try {
xmlDocument.Load(Path.Combine(path, this.GetXmlLanguageFile(countryCode)));
rootElement = xmlDocument.DocumentElement;
if (rootElement == null || !("language".Equals(rootElement.Name)))
throw (new XmlException("Invalid root element !"));
if (!rootElement.GetAttribute("code").Equals(countryCode))
throw (new XmlException("Country codes are different !"));
elementEnumerator = rootElement.GetEnumerator();
while (elementEnumerator.MoveNext()) {
element = (XmlElement) elementEnumerator.Current;
if (element.GetAttribute("name") == null || element.InnerText == null)
throw (new XmlException("Invalid string !"));
this.Strings.Add(element.GetAttribute("name"), element.InnerText);
}
} catch (XmlException exc) {
UnityEngine.Debug.LogException(exc);
}
}
public void SetDefaultString(string defaultString) {
this.DefaultString = defaultString;
}
public string GetXmlLanguageFile(string countryCode) {
return (String.Concat(countryCode.Trim(), ".xml"));
}
public string GetString(string key) {
string returnedString = this.DefaultString;
if (this.Strings.ContainsKey(key))
returnedString = this.Strings[key];
return (returnedString);
}
}
The .xml language file is well stored and I am able to get a string without any problem. My problem is that I don't know how to update my UI correctly when a language is selected by the user. For example, I have a main menu which contains four buttons (see the link above for a visual approach) and these four buttons have to be translated using localization. For this, I made a Menu Manager which contains a function that translates the buttons at start, but I find it really gross :
public void InitializeMainMenu() {
this.MainMenu.transform.Find("Character Demo Button").GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent().text = this.Localization.GetString("text_playy_character_demo");
this.MainMenu.transform.Find("Turn-based Demo Button").GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent().text = this.Localization.GetString("text_play_turnbased_demo");
this.MainMenu.transform.Find("Languages Button").GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent().text = this.Localization.GetString("text_languages_menu");
this.MainMenu.transform.Find("Quit Button").GetChild(0).gameObject.GetComponent().text = this.Localization.GetString("text_quit_game");
this.MainMenu.SetActive(true);
}
The further problem is when the user will select a language : is there any Unity function that updates the GUI once ? I heard about OnGUI() but I feel like this is useless to repeat this code every frame.
I apologize if I can't be more explicit and I'll try to give you more details as the discussion goes.
[1]: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1139305/keep-position-of-ui-while-using-horizontal-layout.html
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[DIY] Need some help supporting localization on a game and updating UI when a language is selected
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![alt text][1]
//===== script 'LoadTextFromFile ' ======
public TextAsset textFileButtonsEng;
public TextAsset textFileButtonsRus;
private string[] dialogLinesButtonsEng;
private string[] dialogLinesButtonsRus;
private int curentLanguageIndex = 1;
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It is Arial font and I can see russian text when type it by myself like on the screenshot below.
![alt text][2]
[1]: /storage/temp/78623-nsc4d.jpg
[2]: /storage/temp/78625-lhzyn.jpg
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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
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