Cross Language Match is a language learning practice game. The user uploads a file containing word pairs (each word defined in two languages), and then must match each word in one language with that word's translation in the other language.
See sample-word-pairs.txt for an example file.
At the moment, most if not all Romance languages.
Why not others? The current limitation is the font; a single TrueType font (TTF) gets loaded in to render the text, and no single TTF exists that supports all existing languages. Such a TTF would have a relatively large data size and thus it would not be practical even if it did exist. Thus, further work must happen to support handling multiple fonts.
C++14 along with SDL2 and SDL2_ttf libraries, with CMake being used to simplify building. This code is to be compiled with Emscripten, which is a C++ compiler which produces Javascript and WebAssembly (WASM).
- Build the project to produce three files: a Javascript file, a WASM file, and a data file.
- Host those files on a web server, with the hosting page containing some small Javascript to properly glue everything together. See example HTML file which does this in sample-web-page.html.
- Install Emscripten SDK and follow any other setup instructions (such as setting up environment).
- In the root of this project directory,
run
rm -rf build && mkdir build && emcmake cmake -S . -B build && cmake --build build --parallel 8. This will generate the three files (JS, WASM, and data) mentioned above, and you can then host them.
You can set up your IDE to utilize the Emscripten tools, so you can click a button instead of doing this command line process. Generally this just entails setting a custom toolchain and compilation profile. I prefer using the terminal for compilation, but proper IDE setup is also very much necessary to be able to find library headers.