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undersupervised
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by undersupervised » Wed Jun 08, 2022 10:42 pm
I'd like to know what language (translation) is being displayed/rendered to the player at runtime. Currently I have code that includes:
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textbutton _("English") action [ Language(None), SetVariable("persistent.selected_translation", "english") ]
textbutton _("Spanish") action [ Language("spanish"), SetVariable("persistent.selected_translation", "spanish") ]
etc.
In other code I check the "persistent.selected_translation" variable.
This appears to work fine. However I'd prefer to reference some built-in variable that the Language action sets, if that exists. Any thoughts?
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by PyTom » Wed Jun 08, 2022 11:29 pm
It's preferences.language. You can read it, but don't set it, as Language does a lot of work.
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