Translators needed! Very small project.

[agb1]

Try this:

ACTION_IF NOT VARIABLE_IS_SET ~%EE_LANGUAGE%~ BEGIN
  COPY_EXISTING ~leat01.itm~ ~override~
    READ_STRREF 0x08 ac_string
  BUT_ONLY
  ACTION_FOR_EACH lang IN ~en_US~ ~pl_PL~ ~de_DE~ ~es_ES~ ~fr_FR~ ~cs_CZ~ ~ru_RU~ ~ko_KR~ BEGIN
    WITH_TRA ~scales_of_balance/language/%lang%/armor.tra~ BEGIN
      OUTER_SPRINT ac_lang @10001
    END      
    ACTION_IF NOT (~%ac_string%~ STRING_CONTAINS_REGEXP ~%ac_lang%~) BEGIN
      OUTER_SPRINT yaras_lang ~%lang%~
    END
  END
END

I changed the first line (added ~~ around EE_LANGUAGE) and the first WITH_TRA line.

[subtledoctor]

Yeah I tried that, it didn't make a difference.

 

I know usually parse errors indicate a problem *before* the indicated line number, but it seems like in this case it really is a problem with the WITH_TRA line...

[agb1]

WITH_TRA was added in WeiDU v240. Can you make sure you are using WeiDU v240? (weidu --version)

 

Edit: I added the block of code I offered above to a random tp2 file and tried running it with WeiDU v240 and it did not give me any parse errors.

[subtledoctor]

Jeez, looks like my purge of Weidu 239 from my system was not complete. All fixed now. Sorry folks, and thank you agb1.

[agb1]

On second thought, that first ~%EE_LANGUAGE%~ might need to be changed to ~EE_LANGUAGE~ without the %%, since you're checking if it exists, not trying to retrieve its value.

[subtledoctor]

Yeah - the final code is like this:

ACTION_IF VARIABLE_IS_SET %EE_LANGUAGE% BEGIN
   OUTER_SPRINT yaras_lang ~%EE_LANGUAGE%~
END

The first instance only checks whether the variable is defined, so you only need the bare variable (enclosed by %%). The second instance sets a different variable to the *string* represented by the variable, so you need another set of ~~ or "".

 

(Pro tip: %%, ~~, and "" are all interchangeable, and each can represent either 'this is a variable' or 'this is a string.' I know most people around here already know that, I'm just mentioning it in case any amateurs stumble upon this thread in the future.)

[agb1]

While it is technically correct that %/"/~ are interchangeable, I find it confusing to use %% to surround a string, because %% is commonly used to retrieve a variable's value, so my initial thought whenever I see %var% is that it is retrieving the value. I have to look again, notice it doesn't also have ~~ or "" around it and realize it's actually just a string.

 

For clarity, I try to be consistent about using ~ ~ or " " (if the string itself contains a ~) to surround strings, and only using % % when retrieving a variable's value.

[subtledoctor]

That's my practice as well. %variable% for variables, ~string~ or "string" for strings. It was a long time before i realized they are arbitrarily interchangeable.

 

The fourth delimiter is ~~~~~string~~~~~ (five tildes on each side of the text). I've actually used all four together in a single line of Weidu... thankfully i have not encountered a situation where it was necessary to use more than four delimiters.

[Mike1072]

I prefer to always quote strings (using ~ or ") and never quote variable names.

 

VARIABLE_IS_SET %EE_LANGUAGE%

The reason this is confusing is because % is not retrieving a value here. The name of the variable is being passed to VARIABLE_IS_SET.

[subtledoctor]

Thread-o Necro! I need another little bit of help. Can anyone tell me how the word "Duration" is translated into various languages in spell descriptions? (You know, that one line up near the top of the description where it says stuff like,

 

Resist Fear
 
Level: 2
Range: 30 ft.
Duration: 1 hour

 

I need to do a REPLACE_TEXTUALLY on all spell descriptions, using this string:

 

~^Duration:.+$~

 

I'm thinking to do it the same way as with the YARAS mod: make a tiny .tra file for each language the game supports, find the installed game language, and use WITH_TRA to run the REPLACE_TEXTUALLY and have it catch the right line of text and replace it with the new duration.

[Gwendolyne]

In French : ~^Durée :.+$~

[subtledoctor]

Is there a space between "Durée" and the colon?

 

In French : ~^Durée :.+$~

[Gwendolyne]

Yes, in French, there is always a space before ; : ? and !.

That's the reason why I wrote it, otherwise, your replacement wont change anything.

[subtledoctor]

Cool, thanks.

 

I wish there was a way I could just look at different versions of dialog.tlk, without reinstalling the game. Am I missing something obvious? I can find an example strref from the English version of dialog.tlk in Near Infinity... but all of the other installed versions of dialog.tlk are sitting there in the /lang folders. Rather than asking people on the internet, it would be nice if I could find the same strref in those .tlk files and get the answer myself...

[Cahir]

In Polish this would be: ~^Czas działania: .+$~