C and choose between structure

Question

I would like to implement a multi language menu on my micro-controller, but I don't know how.

I thought of some ideas for structure languages who have more sub structure (English, Slovenian, German, ...), and on sub structure have:

char title[] = "MENU"; //english

But I don't know how access into my structure because in main class I have a function to set language.

Example:

function choose language{
      choose language = 1; //english
      //choose language = 2; //slovenian
}

Call value from structure

PutChar(language[].title);    //before choosing the language 1 English, because now call sub structure English. 

Answer 1

I'm assuming you will have all of your text hardcoded. Simply create an array of strings:

const char* const title[] = { "MENU" , "MENI" } ;

And then every access to such an object is done via the language enumerator:

enum
{
    english = 0 ,
    slovenian = 1 ,
} ;

Enums in C are int, so the above code could be done using macro defines, with the same effect:

#define english 0 
#define slovenian 1

Then you just define your variable language, set a language, and print the values.

int language = english ;

puts( title[language] ) ;
language = slovenian ;
puts( title[language] ) ;