How to pass string literal as a parameter?

Development Programming & Scripting
1

I have an FText variable called title that I need to display to the user. I’m trying to set it via a function:

void ALocation::SetTitle(FString t) {  // what datatype do I use here?
    title = LOCTEXT("1", t);
}

It’s just I’m not sure how to pass a string literal as a parameter so that LOCTEXT will accept it.

2

Try this:

title = LOCTEXT(“1”, *t);

3

Didn’t work. Somehow I’m getting: error C2065: 'L' : undeclared identifier
I have no variable named L.

4

If that is the error you get then LOCTEXT probably requires an ANSI style string of chars. I think FString uses TCHAR internally. You will need to convert your TCHAR string to a char string and then pass it.

5

I was thinking about this all wrong. First of all, I changed the function to use FText:

 void ALocation::SetTitle(FText t) {
      title = t;
 }

Then, in the class that calls the function, that is where I put the #define LOCTEXT_NAMESPACE "foo" and set the FText:

 #define LOCTEXT_NAMESPACE "foo"
 ...
 location1->SetTitle(LOCTEXT("Title", "Title"));
 ...
 #undef LOCTEXT_NAMESPACE