[fpc-pascal] How to get the current translation of a resource string?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2020, Luca Olivetti via fpc-pascal wrote:

>> But the 'current translation' is simply the value of the resourcestring, so
>> you should not need to look it up ?
>
> How?
>
> I'm trying to detect this specific exception
>
>       raise EInvalidOperation.Create(sCannotFocus);
>
> (where sCannotFocus is defined in LCLStrConsts).
>
> I tried
>
>   if E is EInvalidOperation then
>      if E.message=sCannotFocus
>
> but it doesn't work (sCannotFocus holds the original, not the 
> translated, string).

Seems like Lazarus is not using the regular resourcestrings then, because
the whole point of using resourcestrings is that their value is the
translated value...

Michael.