Back to the blog. ActionScript Language detection

Well, once again around here… this time I want to start sharing useful code (at least it’s been useful for me), so I’m going to start publishing any code that I think made my jobs easier so I can give something back.

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// ActionScript Lang detection, Dario Novoa Special Thanks to Arnaldo Baumanis//
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// First lets define a variable witch will contain the result of the system language detection
var lang = System.capabilities.language;
//then let’s define some cases of what to store in the variable depending on the findings, the detection will give back a 2 characters lang (example: en (english), es (spanish))…
if (lang == “es”) {
//here lets change the two character value to something more human readable (this is totally unnecessary but I did it anyways. (so if lang = es, then lang = spanish) ).
lang = “spanish”;
trace(“spanish”);
} else if (lang == “en”) {
lang = “english”;
trace(“english”);
} else if (idioma == “de”){
lang = “german”;
trace(“german”);
};

trace(“el idioma es “+lang);

//after all that we are simply detecting the language of the system and storing it into a variable now let’s make another case situation where if the language it’s spanish it will load a spanish movie into an empty MC or target MC.

function langChange () {
trace (lang);

if (lang == “undefined”) {
loadMovie(“menu_eng.swf”,container);
}
if (lang == “english”) {
trace (“its English, es ingles”);
loadMovie(“menu_eng.swf”,container);
btn_eng._alpha=100;
btn_spa._alpha=50;
//btn_gem._alpha=100; //para el futuro
getURL (“url”,”frame”);
}
if (lang == “spanish”) {
loadMovie(“menu_es.swf”,container);
btn_spa._alpha=100;
btn_eng._alpha=50;
//btn_gem._alpha=50; //para el futuro
getURL (“url/spanish.htm”,”frame”);
}

trace (lang);
}

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I hope it’s useful to someone…