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Editors Depot - Mission Editing and Scripting => ArmA - Editing/Scripting General => Topic started by: Goullou on 14 Apr 2008, 16:07:55

Title: How to detect the language of ArmA by script?
Post by: Goullou on 14 Apr 2008, 16:07:55

Hi there,

Does someone know a way to detect the language of ArmA currently used by a player in multi?
I already know all about the "localize" command and the "stringtable.csv" to localize the strings in different language but i would like to run different things in a script depending of the player language.
Is there a command returning the current selected language?

All ideas welcome...

Title: Re: How to detect the language of ArmA by script?
Post by: Wolfrug on 14 Apr 2008, 16:52:38

hmm! Good question. Have you tried this:

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_string1 = format ["%1", localize "STR_YourString"]; if (_string1 == "This is the English string") then {hint "English!"}; if (_string1 == "Tämä on suomenkielinen stringi") then {hint "Finnish!"}
AFAIK, localize "whatever" should return a simple string. I don't see any reason why you couldn't run a string-comparison to see what language is being run. You just gotta try it! Add two languages to your stringtable.csv, then try changing the language in the menu between tries. :)

Wolfrug out.