https://github.com/DragoniteSpam/GMLocalize2

now with a visual interface, plus gms2
https://github.com/DragoniteSpam/GMLocalize2

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now with a visual interface, plus gms2

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/DragoniteSpam/GMLocalize2
• Owner: DragoniteSpam
• Created: 2020-11-10T22:53:13.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-05T04:23:35.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T07:10:34.200Z (5 months ago)
• Language: C#
• Size: 77.1 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: readme.md

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• awesome-gamemaker - GMLocalize - Not a full localization solution. Extracts text strings for localization from a GameMaker Studio 2 project and saves it to a JSON file. (Localization / Recommendations)

README

        
# GMLocalize (version number two)

Extract text strings for localization from a GameMaker Studio 2 project, and save it to a JSON file.

I might make this a proper text localization tool later. Who knows.

In case you're wondering, Version 1 was [this thing](https://github.com/DragoniteSpam/GMLocalize). It worked, kinda.

### Usage

This tool will pull out any bare string passed as the first parameter to a **localization** function.

    var localized_text = __("The quick brown fox jumped over Donald Trump");

The localization function can be named anything. The default is two underscores (`__`).

Anything that is not a bare string **will not work,** and will probably cause the output to break:

    var localized_text = __("The quick brown fox " + "jumped over Donald Trump");

    /* name = "Donald Trump" */

    var localized_text = __("The quick brown fox jumped over " + name);

    /* text = "The quick brown fox jumped over Donald Trump" */

    var localized_text = __(text);

In any event, if you actually want to translate a game to different languages, you're going to need some kind of string formatter anyway, because most languages don't follow the same rules as whatever language you are developing in.

    /* name = "Donald Trump" */

    var localized_text = __("The quick brown fox jumped over %0");

    var formatted_text = format(localized_text, name);

From there, you can save it to a json file.

### Building

It's a Visual Studio project, or something

### Credits

 - Program icon - Language by The Icon Z from the Noun Project