CURRENT-LANGUAGE function

The following example displays a message indicating the setting of your CURRENT-LANGUAGE:

CURRENT-LANGUAGE

r-curlng.p
DEFINE VARIABLE cur-lang AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO. cur-lang = CURRENT-LANGUAGE. IF cur-lang = "?" THEN MESSAGE "Your current language is not set.". ELSE MESSAGE "Your current language is" cur-lang.

An r-code file may contain several text segments each associated with a different language. The setting of the CURRENT-LANGUAGE variable determines from which r-code text segment the AVM reads character-string constants.

If the value of CURRENT-LANGUAGE is a quoted question mark ("?"), the AVM reads character-strings from the default text segment.

The value of CURRENT-LANGUAGE might be a comma-separated list of language names. If so, the AVM searches r-code for a text segment that matches the first language in the list. If that segment is not found, then it searches for a text segment for the next entry in the list until a segment is found.

You can initialize the CURRENT-LANGUAGE variable with the Language (-lng) parameter.

The behavior of CURRENT-LANGUAGE when one procedure calls another is as follows:

If a procedure changes the value of CURRENT-LANGUAGE, calls from the procedure to the CURRENT-LANGUAGE function return the name of the new language, but the procedure continues to use the character strings of the original language.

If the procedure then runs another procedure, when the called procedure gets control, calls from the called procedure to the CURRENT-LANGUAGE function return the name of the new language, and the called procedure uses the character strings of the new language.

When the called procedure finishes and control returns to the original procedure, calls from the original procedure to the CURRENT-LANGUAGE function return the name of the new language, but the original procedure continues to use the character strings of the original language.