Does dfint have an API?

[chinanoahli]

What I mean is, can I call dfint from another program to directly access in-game text?
That way, I could create external tools to support languages that with hieroglyphic writing systems.

[chinanoahli]

This approach enables me to use another programming language, such as Python, as an intermediary tool to send in-game text to third-party software like Ollama, a local AI translation tool. This allows users with limited English proficiency to play newer game versions promptly without waiting for localization support.

[insolor]

The problem is not in translation at all.

Support of hieroglyphic writing systems needs alternative df-steam-hook-rs implementation with adding ttf font support. Without ttf font support, it's impossible to draw hieroglyphs.

There were some forks, but I'm not aware if they are currently in a working state. Theoretically, we could add a separate url for alternative version of df-steam-hook-rs for some languages (Japanese, Chinese, Korean).

[insolor]

Translation percent for Chinese and Korean in particular is pretty high. But it's just currently impossible to show the translation in the game because of using of a simple bitmap font with 256 symbols at maximum with very limited character size (I don't remember exact sizes). It's just impossible to fit all characters for Chinese, Korean, or Japanese there.

[insolor]

Also, see discussion #1

[chinanoahli]

I understand what you mean.

But you might have misunderstood the question I posed.

What I meant was: if dfint had an API allowing other programs to directly access the game's text.

Then dfint wouldn't need to implement its own language overlay functionality. These features could be handled by third-party plugins. For example, a plugin could create an additional terminal window and display fonts for other languages within that terminal window.

Like this tool: Textractor, Textractor is solely responsible for extracting text from the game and creating an external window, while the translation functionality is implemented by other plugins.

Personally, I think while this might not be the most visually appealing solution, it's relatively easy to implement.

I've tried the forked projects mentioned in the README, but their results haven't been very satisfactory, and their translation progress is lagging behind.

[insolor]

There is no api, but in principle it is possible to modify df-steam-hook-rs to do translation not by external dictionary (loaded from csv file), but with some external tools.

See file https://github.com/dfint/df-steam-hook-rs/blob/main/src/hooks.rs, every place with DICTIONARY.get. Getting value from a dictionary can be replaced with a call to an external tool.

[insolor]

Also, I've remembered they moved a fork to some other place, and here it is: https://gitee.com/vizv/dfint-rust-cjk