[wix-users] Multi-language installer - custom bootstrapper
Rick Papo
rpapo at comcast.net
Thu Feb 27 04:07:54 PST 2020
Sounds interesting . . . for investigation when I have more time. Thanks for the links.
> I don't believe it would support dynamic (like during the installer execution) switching of the language.
> But that seems like a very unusual use-case anyway.
But it is precisely what we did before with InstallShield. But we left InstallShield mostly because the only person in our group who was trained in it was let go years ago.
--Rick
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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Bevan Weiss via wix-users
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Why aren't you using the MST transforms for the multilingual?
Yes you need to generate the individual MSIs, but they get consolidated into a single MSI with transform files (which you could embed into the MSI also).
I don't believe it would support dynamic (like during the installer execution) switching of the language.
But that seems like a very unusual use-case anyway.
I would expect that you'd just want to ship a single MSI (or setup package) and have it pick the appropriate language of installer to launch based on the Windows locale.
If you want to have it based on something else that the user chooses, then you just need your bootstrapper to intercept the UI first, request the language information from the user and then launch with the appropriate transform. You wouldn't need to ship multiple MSIs, just the one base (English?) MSI, and then the various transforms.
http://www.geektieguy.com/2010/03/13/create-a-multi-lingual-multi-language-msi-using-wix-and-custom-build-scripts/
https://www.hass.de/content/how-create-msi-packages-multilingual-user-interface-mui
https://www.firegiant.com/wix/tutorial/transforms/morphing-installers/
Regards,
Bevan
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Multi-language installer - custom bootstrapper
>>>> But what I believe Viharika wants is the ability to change the
>>>> locale
on the fly.
Exactly. I wants this ability.
>>>> how would expect ARP to remember this selection for updates /
uninstalls?
My bootstrapper launching the MSI with mst so ARP remembers the language.
Please see my first mail to know how I am creating the mst for Japanese language.
On Thu, 27 Feb, 2020, 4:38 AM Rick Papo, <rpapo at comcast.net> wrote:
> But what I believe Viharika wants is the ability to change the locale
> on the fly. I personally find it a huge waste that when I created
> three locales for my MSI (English, Japanese and Chinese), the result
> was three separate MSIs. So I have the choice of embedding all three
> MSIs into the BootStrap Application, or shipping three different bootstrappers.
>
> That is rather less than ideal, especially since the localizations are
> only a very, very small part of the MSIs. Why can't all three
> languages be supported by a single MSI, or a single BA?
>
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> Behalf Of Hoover, Jacob via wix-users
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 6:04 PM
> To: viharika reddy <viharikareddygopu at gmail.com>
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> bootstrapper
>
> WixStdBA already has localized strings for its install dialogs. And
> the UI is localizable. If you roll your own and it’s just a “launcher”
> for your MSI, how would expect ARP to remember this selection for
> updates / uninstalls?
>
>
> From: viharika reddy [mailto:viharikareddygopu at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 3:39 PM
> To: Hoover, Jacob <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>
> Cc: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Multi-language installer - custom
> bootstrapper
>
> Hi Jacob,
>
> >>>> If you're already creating a bundle, why are you worrying about
> >>>> the
> MSI?
> I am not creating the bundle here. I am creating a simple bootstrapper
> application (my own) which launches the MSI based on the language
> selection. Is Wix bundle has the capability to display language
> selection and launch the MSI accordingly?
>
> >>>> Are these installer localizations or localizations on the
> >>>> installed
> application?
> These are installer localizations. During installation, if I select
> Japanese language in Windows English locale OS, the MSI dialog text
> should be in Japanese. The MSI dialog text should be based on the
> language selection by the user and not based on the OS locale.
>
> Please let me if you need more information. And correct me if I am wrong.
>
> -Viharika
> On Wed, 26 Feb, 2020, 11:40 PM Hoover, Jacob,
> <Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com <mailto:Jacob.Hoover at greenheck.com>> wrote:
> If you're already creating a bundle, why are you worrying about the MSI?
> Are these installer localizations or localizations on the installed
> application?
>
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> viharikareddygopu at gmail.com>>
> Subject: [wix-users] Multi-language installer - custom bootstrapper
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know whether I am following a right approach or not to
> create a multi-lang installer(English and Japanese). I am following
> below approach.
>
> *Package creation:*
>
> 1. Default language is set to English in my product.wxs file.
> 2. Creating the msi package
> 3. Creating Japanese localized msi package using "-dcodepage=932" and
> "-cultures:ja-JP" options.
> 4. Generating a transform file (1041.mst) using torch by passing the
> above two msi packages(English and Japanese)
> 5. Creating a simple bootstrapper application with language selection
> dialog. Now my package contains
> 1. msi package
> 2. 1041.mst file (japanese) and
> 3. setup.exe (bootstrapper)
>
> *Note*: I am not including Japanese msi in my package
>
> *Installation:*
>
> 1. setup.exe displays a lang-selection dialog upon its launching.
> 2. If user selects "English" then msi will be launched as "msiexex /i
> product.msi"
> 3. If user selects "Japanese" then msi will launched as "msiexe /i
> product.msi 1041.mst"
>
>
> Could please confirm that I am following a right process here to
> create a multi-language installer? Please let me know if there is any
> better approach or any drawbacks in my current process.
>
> -Viharika
>
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