Localizing a button

[cristimirt]

Hi. How can I localize a button? I want to provide russian localization to one of my addons, and I managed to translate everything but the text of a button.

[Setras]

You may use the .loc file way to do it. Simply put all text files into YourAddonsName.rus file(keeping the file paths), and they will be prioritized over the txt files in your original addon file, if the user has "rus" selected as his locale. I, however, did not try this.

I think that you may also use SetFormat or SetValue command to change the button's text. I, however, did not test this as well, and i think it has pretty high chances not to work with button widgets.

The .loc files distribution is not popular among addon developers, as it requires a separate file download for each addon/localization.

[cristimirt]

SetFormat and SetValue won't work and the .loc files way would really be annoying. Is ther any way to set the value of a button from the script files?

[logg]

WidgetButton.xdb

<Variants>
<Item>
<TextFileRef href="Text-alignx-center" />
 <FormatFileRef  href="ButtonExecute.txt" />
<Reaction>execute</Reaction>
</Item>
</Variants>

ButtonExecute.txt

<button><tip_grey><r name="button_label"/></tip_grey></button>

Lua

wtButton1:SetVal("button_label", userMods.ToWString("-") )

[cristimirt]

Still not working. What does "Text-alignx-center" have to contain?

[logg]

TextFileRef contain link on localized text file (utf-8)

[cristimirt]

Still not getting it. I'm a noob. I'll try to find an addon that has a localized button and see if I can learn from it Thanks for the help though. Much appreciated.

Изменено 6 апреля, 2013 пользователем cristimirt

[cristimirt]

I made it to work.. somehow.

This is the WidgetButton.xdb

<Variants>
<Item>
<TextFileRef href="ButtonClose.txt" />
<Reaction>close</Reaction>
</Item>
</Variants>

This is the ButtonClose.txt

<button fontsize="11"><r name="button_label"/></button>

And this is the LUA code:

wtCloseBtn:SetVal("button_label", toWS(GetTextLocalized("Close")))

I don't know why it didn't work previously, but I'm glad it works now. I looked at how GuilGui1b does things

Изменено 6 апреля, 2013 пользователем cristimirt

[Setras]

Still not getting it. I'm a noob. I'll try to find an addon that has a localized button and see if I can learn from it Thanks for the help though. Much appreciated.

AddonManager. GuildGui1b. Enough?

[cristimirt]

AddonManager. GuildGui1b. Enough?

Yeah, I checked GuildGui1b. I don't have AddonManager anymore, I'm using AddonReloader for reloading addons