Features: Variants

It's sometimes necessary to include many variants of the same string in your application to support the different personal pronouns: (for example: Send her/his/them/zir a gift). To support this type of scenario, generally, you must write code in your viewmodel to select the correct text corresponding to the pronoun you want to use. ReswPlus can simplify this task and fully manage the support of string variants for you, a single resource identifier would return different strings depend of your needs.

Variants can not only be used to represent genders/personal pronouns but also for groups, categories...

Some examples:

Support genders/personal pronouns

Resw:

Key	Value
SendAMessage_Variant1	Send her a message
SendAMessage_Variant2	Send him a message
SendAMessage_Variant3	Send them a message
SendAMessage_Variant4	Send zir a message

Usage:

enum PersonalPronoun{ HER = 1, HIM, THEM, ZIR };
class Person
{
   public PersonalPronoun PronounId{get;set;}
}

Resources.SendAMessage(Person.PronounId);

Personalize your strings based on the context

Display a welcome message depending of the current time:

Resw:

Key	Value
Greeting_Variant0	Good morning, enjoy your day
Greeting_Variant1	Good afternoon, have a good time
Greeting_Variant2	Good evening, hope your day was fine
Greeting_Variant4	Good night, sleep well, see you tomorrow

Usage:

enum PartOfTheDayEnum { MORNING = 0, AFTERNOON = 1, EVENING = 2, NIGHT = 4 };

Resources.Greeting(PartOfTheDay);