to avoid having to ship a whole ja2.ini for languages that
currently don't
command-line /language:german still works, but INI file is
prioritized
format:
```
[Language]
LANGUAGE = ITALIAN
```
squashed into a single commit because doing it in steps that all
compiled involved a lot of boilerplate that is pointless to commit to
the repository. GH still has the PR for reference.
g_lang, MAX_MESSAGES_ON_MAP_BOTTOM, and GetLanguagePrefix() were
compile-time constants selected by the ENGLISH/GERMAN/... build
define. They're now runtime, defaulting to the same per-exe value the
define used to pick, and overridable at startup from [Ja2 Settings]
LANGUAGE in Ja2.ini.
-
XMLTacticalMessages is filled at runtime from NewTacticalMessages.xml,
never from compiled-in per-language data: all 8 per-language definitions
were the identical all-zero { L"" }. Delete them and define one shared
buffer in Utils/XML_Language.cpp (the loader) instead of pointer-rebinding
it like the static tables — this drops 9 dead 800KB zero-buffers (8
namespaced copies in LanguageStrings.cpp plus the standalone one) and
leaves no bind-ordering hazard for the XML load path.
-
ExportStrings.cpp privately recompiled one language's full text table
by #including the raw _<LANG>Text.cpp inside namespace Loc, keyed off
the exe-level ENGLISH/GERMAN/... compile macro (whichever the build
happened to select). That's redundant with the pointer globals every
other subsystem already uses (Text.h / LanguageStrings.cpp).
Drop the private copy; the unqualified table names in Loc::ExportStrings
now resolve to the global pointer externs, which BindLanguageStrings has
already rebound to the runtime g_lang by the time this runs (EXPORT_STRINGS
ini flag, checked after GetRuntimeSettings in sgp.cpp). gs_Lang (used only
by Loc::Translate for the Polish/Russian byte remap on raw .edt exports) is
now derived from g_lang via ToLocLanguage, so the export always matches
whatever language is actually active instead of a compile-time pick.
-
Editor/popupmenu.cpp and Strategic/Scheduling.cpp kept their own
call-site extern of gszScheduleActions as CHAR16[NUM_SCHEDULE_ACTIONS][20]
after the real definition changed into a rebindable pointer
(CHAR16 (*)[20], LanguageStrings.cpp). MSVC decays the outer array
dimension when mangling globals, so both declarations produce the same
symbol (?gszScheduleActions@@3PAY0BE@_WA) and the mismatch linked
silently -- but the array-typed TUs then indexed the 4-byte pointer
slot itself as string data, so the editor schedule popup and the map
schedule message text read garbage.
-
add text.def to be single-source of truth on symbol names and use it
.much simpler, less error prone if adding more strings
-
add pseudo interface for language state. MAX_SAGES_ON_BOTTOM must always
change in lockstep with g_lang. this isn't foolproof but better
---------
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This one is big, but unless I missed something, should be all be
trivial.
scripted-diff with the following, then manually tweaked whatever needed:
```
if [ $# -ne 3 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 '<pattern>' '<replacement>' '<filename>'"
exit 1
fi
pattern="$1"
replacement="$2"
filename="$3"
if [ ! -f "$filename" ]; then
echo "Error: File $filename does not exist."
exit 1
fi
sed -i '/'"$pattern"'/ {
:loop
$ !{
N
/'"$pattern"'.*\n.*#endif/ {
s/'"$pattern"'/'"$replacement"'/
s/#else/} else {/
s/#endif/}/
P
D
}
/'"$pattern"'/ b loop
}
}' "$filename"
echo "Replacement complete in $filename"
```
h/t to Grok2 for the sed command
Additional music can be added by placing sound files into Dataa/Music folder following this naming convention
musicmode_runningNumber.fileformat, so for example:
Mainmenu_001.mp3
Mainmenu_002.ogg
Laptop_002.ogg
Tactical_003.wav
*****************************************************************
Different musicmodes are
Mainmenu_ <-- Mainmenu music
Laptop_ <-- Laptop music
Tactical_ <-- Tactical with nothing special going on
Enemy_ <-- Tactical, enemy present
Battle_ <-- Tactical, enemy present and visible
Victory_ <-- Tactical, battle victory
Death_ <-- Tactical, battle defeat
Creepy_ <-- Tactical, creatures present
CreepyBattle_ <-- Tactical, creatures present and visible
Music files can be .mp3, .ogg or .wav formats and 100 songs in each category is supported.
The running numbering starts from 000
*****************************************************************
A few filenames are treated in a special way to facilitate easy replacement of original music.
To replace original music, insert the following named files into this folder
"menumix1" <-- Mainmenu music
"marimbad 2" <-- Laptop music
"nothing A" <-- Tactical with nothing special going on
"nothing B"
"nothing C"
"nothing D"
"tensor A" <-- Tactical, enemy present
"tensor B"
"tensor C"
"triumph"
"death"
"battle A" <-- Tactical, enemy present and visible
"tensor B" <-- This file is also used as battle music
"creepy" <-- Tactical, creatures present
"creature battle" <-- Tactical, creatures present and visible
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