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I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get multi language support into tooltips when the tooltips also have some variables...

This works fine:


However, when a tooltip contains other stuff as well, it seems impossible to get it in there?

It works fine for buttons, here is the snip from the post in another topic:

You can put flags into your interface buttons and captions in the same way other language strings work. If you have a language string file that contains

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my_language_string            This is *X string
my_language_string_my         my


In the lua code you can do any of the following:

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- Interface.AddComponent( "MyButton", "Button", "my_language_string", "my_language_string_my", "X" )                  -- Caption is set to "This is my string"
- Interface.AddComponent( "MyButton", "Button", "my_language_string", "your", "X" )                                 -- Caption is set to "This is your string"
- Interface.AddComponent( "MyButton", "Button", "my_language_string", 4, "X" )                                       -- Caption is set to "This is 4 string"


You can also include multiple flags in the same string

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my_other_string          This is *X other *Y


for example.

But trying to do stuff like that for a tooltip setting like this:

is what all the brain damage is about.

So far I've tried this for base-language.txt:



... and then these failed attempts in the .lua script:


But all of the options above either output this:

or this

(where the number represents the HomeUID number)

One interesting line I tried was:

it will output


But when trying to use %d in the base-language file like this

with code like this

it will output

And unfortunately pumping the tooltip in another variable first wont help, so we get same results from above when using these two lines:


Also merging the tips together like this

Does not work... it will output



Any suggestions are very welcome, I haven't seen mods yet using this kind of stuff...
And when you got the simple example above to work, have a crack on this one as well:



The base-language.txt entry you'll get for free (I'm guessing it's this):

..but how on earth get that into a tooltip?

For various reasons (how we hold the tooltip, how we do marker replacements, etc.) this doesn't work at the moment. So I've changed the behaviour of this.Tooltip for scripted objects (and objectTable.Tooltip in the general case of WorldObjects). In the next update you'll be able to do the following



Though please note that objectTable.SetProperty( "Tooltip", "string" ) won't work in the same way. This should help you out soon!

Thank god, I thought I was going completely nuts for not being able to get it to work. Thanks a lot, looks like that code will do just what's needed!

So then the final example line

can become:

or also:


Correct?
Profit!

Is there a limit on how many of those arguments can be put together in one tooltip? I'm assuming it's 26 -> *A up to *Z.

is wrong. You need it in the order



Where all the flags are single letter strings (we use the first character in the string to determine the flag char) and variables are either a string id, a string, or a number.

That makes sense. And keeps the tooltip from getting a mess as well :p