Being able to pass argument for a given translation

[morphonet]

As a user, i'd like to be able to give an argument when using useTranslation that will be injected into the translated string.

For exemple :
useTranslation("myTranslate1", player.name)

And in my json:
Fr > myTranslate1: "Bienvenue #### !",
En > myTranslate1: "Welcome #### !"

Even better, give a struct as an argument, and fill the translated strings with named properties, such as :
useTranslation("myTranslate1", {playerName: "Morphonet", level: 10});

And in my json:
Fr > myTranslate1: "Bienvenue {{playerName}} ! Oh, vous êtes déjà au niveau {{level}} ? Bien joué !"
En > myTranslate1: "Welcome {{playerName}} ! Oh, i see you're already level {{level}} ? Well done !"

[rbarbosa95]

Almost two years later 😅

To be quite honest I haven't found a way to do this, but with the new Game Maker updates, you can do this again natively.

You can use your own string or string_ext functions.

For example:

In the translation files
Fr > myTranslate1: "Bienvenue {0} ! Oh, vous êtes déjà au niveau {1} ? Bien joué !"
En > myTranslate1: "Welcome {0} ! Oh, i see you're already level {1} ? Well done !"

// Create
t = method(self, useTranslation);
nameVar =  t("welcome", "nameVar");

// Draw
draw_text(32, room_height / 2, string_ext(nameVar, ["Creative", "Hand"]));

This will cause it, before rendering the text, to take the information between keys to exchange with the array step as the second parameter of string_ext

I know it sounds like a bit of work, but using the native way I believe is the best way now.
And of course if I have any unmapped cases, I'll try to answer them or help out.