Can Text Table fields include variables for dynamic text?

[Andy Miira]

Hi! Let's say I have a text table field, "Game Version", I want it to show the following text in my UI:

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Game version: 1.0.0

But instead of the 1.0.0, I want it to fetch the game version dynamically, using Unity's "Application.version".

Is there any way to set custom dynamic variables inside Text Table fields?
Should I use Lua functions for that purpose?

[Tony Li]

Hi,

I'm not sure that you'd want to use text tables or Lua functions for that. But if you want to, you can register a Lua function to return the current version:

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Lua.RegisterFunction("GetAppVersion", null, SymbolExtensions.GetMethodInfo(() => GetAppVersion()));

static string GetAppVersion() { return Application.version; }

Then make a subclass of LocalizeUI that overrides GetLocalizedText() to parse [var=variable] and [lua(code)] tags:

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public class LocalizeUIWithTags : PixelCrushers.LocalizeUI
{
    protected override string GetLocalizedText(string fieldName)
    {
        return FormattedText.ParseCode(base.GetLocalizedText(fieldName));
    }
}

(Edit: Fixed typo.)

Then you can set a UI Text or TextMeshProUGUI field to:

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Game version: [lua(GetAppVersion())]

[Andy Miira]

I want to use Text Tables in this case, because I also needed to localize the "Game Version:" part of the string field.

Overall, I wanted the option to parse dynamic variables/Lua code inside Text Table fields (similarly to the Dialogue texts), and the code you posted works great!
Thanks

I just had to change the override access to "protected", and it all worked perfectly!

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protected override string GetLocalizedText(string fieldName)

[Tony Li]

Oops; typo. I just fixed it in my post above.