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I am not sure weather it is a bug in my code or in the Report Generator.
As I understand in the following code:
The Method WriteFormattedDic should occur only if the individual has a death date. But living individuals still get the He/She word as if they have a death date.
When I use the condition:
| If (i.death.date <> "") Then |
It works fine.
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Thanks!
That worked.
I wrote this Method:
Sub WriteFormattedDic(iGenderId, strDic)
strTagName = strDic & "_" & iGenderId
strValue = LanguageDictionary(strTagName)
Report.Write strValue
End Sub |
where iGenderId = i.gender.id and strDic is the string in which the user needs a gender related word like He/She or Son/Daughter
I took your advice and added to the dictionary.xml
<ReportGenerator>
<HeShe_M T="He" />
<HeShe_F T="She" />
<SonDaugter_M T="son" />
<SonDaugter_F T="daughter" />
</ReportGenerator> |
Thanks again for your help.
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TrystrTagName = i.gender.id & "_" & strDic
strValue = LanguageDictionary(strTagName) |
The i.gender.id will return you "M", "F", "P" or an empty string if the gender is unknown. If you use i.gender, then you will get a value from the <Gender> enumeration.
Do not use the Set keyword; this keyword is reserved to assign objects rather than strings.
Just a suggestion, I would recommend the following in the file Dictionary.xml:<ReportGenerator>
<HeShe_M T="He" />
<HeShe_F T="She" />
<HeShe_P T="It" />
<HeShe_ T="he" />
</ReportGenerator> |
and use
strTagName = "HeShe_" & i.gender.id
strValue = LanguageDictionary(strTagName) |
The reason why I am recommending to put the "HeShe" before the gender is to favor sorting, and therefore group similar dictionary entries together. You are welcome to read the bottom of page http://www.genopro.com/NewReportGenerator/CodingStyle/ for details.
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strValue = LanguageDictionary(strTagName)
strValue = LanguageDictionary.Peek(strTagName) |
I used the first method like this:
Set Gender = i.gender
Set strTagName = Gender + "_" + strDic
Set strValue = LanguageDictionary(strTagName)
Report.Write strValue
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I entered two entries to the <ReportGenerator> section in the Dictionary.xml as follow:
<Male_HeShe T="He"/>
<Female_HeShe T="She"/>
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When I generate the report I'm getting this error message:
Error at line 119 generating 'ind00001.htm': Object required: '[string: "Male_HeShe"]'
What I did wrong?
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The method LanguageDictionary(strTagName) always looks into the section <ReportGenerator> of LanguageDictionary.xml. In the future, there will be other sections such as <Menus> and <Dialogs> to translate the menus and the dialogs, however the section <ReportGenerator> is strictly reserved for the report generator, so you can put anything you want there.
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strValue = LanguageDictionary(strTagName)
strValue = LanguageDictionary.Peek(strTagName) |
The first one does a lookup to the dictionary and displays an error to the message if the tag name is not found. The Peek method never displays an error.
Example:
| strNameEmpty = LanguageDictionary("_NoName") |
Is this Method always search the tag name in the <ReportGenerator> section?
If not - thaen how I tell the Method in which section I want it to look?
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strValue = LanguageDictionary(strTagName)
strValue = LanguageDictionary.Peek(strTagName) |
The first one does a lookup to the dictionary and displays an error to the message if the tag name is not found. The Peek method never displays an error.
Example:
| strNameEmpty = LanguageDictionary("_NoName") |
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Is there any Method I can use to read values from the Dictionary.xml file?
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Is the Method going to be soon, or should I insert the condition each time I need it?
Try writing the code yourself. If you have suggestions or specific language issues, please let me know. Internally, the method WriteFormattedDic(str, ...) will be the same as WriteFormatted(LanguageDictionary(str), ...).
One thing I want to add is the "String Builder" to combine text on patterns. One method will be StringBuilder.AppendTextWithSeparator(strText, strSeparator) where the separator is inserted before strText if the buffer is empty. A typical usage would be.
Set sb = Util.NewStringBuilder
sb.AppendT3 "born ", i.birth.date
sb.AppendTextWithSeparator i.birth.place, " at "
Report.Write sb
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The " at " would be inserted only if the date and place of birth are defined. This is a short example, but the string builder would be useful to concatenate long strings.
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For instance, a method named Report.WriteFormattedDic(strDic, ...) where strDic is the entry in the dictionary of the formatting template. Adding linguistic sentences is very language dependent.
This is what I meant.
Each linguistic sentence can invlove gender related words. The Method should add the proper gender word to the sentence.
I have another example - if a someone died then He/She was the son/daughter of instead of is the son/daughter...
Is the Method going to be soon, or should I insert the condition each time I need it?
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