Game Text

[Voyhkah]

How do I make text that... It's hard to explain.

I want text that says somthing like

*+3 with Paganism

Or really:

*+(-)(int value) (Commerce Symbol) with (Civic)

I already have the values, but how do I make them into game text?

Right now, I have some code in setBuildingHelpActual that looks like this:

//Voyhkah Tweak START//
	for (iI = 0; iI < GC.getNumCivicInfos(); iI++)
	{
		for (int iJ = 0; iJ < NUM_COMMERCE_TYPES; iJ++)
		{
			if (kBuilding.getCivicCommerceChange(iI, iJ) != 0)
			{
				szBuffer.append(NEWLINE);
				szBuffer.append(gDLL->getText("TXT_KEY_PEDIA_CIVIC_CULTURE_CHANGE", kBuilding.getCivicCommerceChange(iI, iJ), GC.getCommerceInfo((CommerceTypes)iJ).getDescription(), GC.getCivicInfo((CivicTypes)iI).getDescription()));
			}
		}
	}

//Tweak END//

And in the Text folder, this:

<TEXT>
		<Tag>TXT_KEY_PEDIA_CIVIC_CULTURE_CHANGE</Tag>
		<English>+%i1 [ICON_%s1] with %s2</English>
		<French>+%i1 [ICON_%s1] with %s2</French>
		<German>+%i1 [ICON_%s1] with %s2</German>
		<Italian>+%i1 [ICON_%s1] with %s2</Italian>
		<Spanish>+%i1 [ICON_%s1] with %s2</Spanish>
		<Finnish>+%i1 [ICON_%s1] with %s2</Finnish>
	</TEXT>

 

[God-Emperor]

For the symbol, instead of trying to build a tag just pass the symbol character. For the text it would be something like

<English>%D1%F2 with %s3</English>

and in the call to gDLL->getText pass they actual symbol instead of the name of the symbol, which you can get via

GC.getCommerceInfo((CommerceTypes)iJ).getChar()

Each of the symbols in the game font files is inserted into the font it uses as an actual unicode character. Why "%F" is the formatting code the game uses for it, I do not know (the F code is normally for a floating point value).