Don't mind at all.
So what's the 1 param for loadResources(), just a string path to the
file itself? And if (as I understand you) we don't have a facility for
displaying the stuff from the properties file, should this go in the API
for now or stay out?
thanks
-ian
Dan Veditz wrote:
> Hope you don't mind me CC'ing the newsgroup, others might have these
> questions too.
>
> Ian Oeschger wrote:
>
>> From my notes:
>>
>> dveditz: What and where is the install log that gets written to in
>> logComment()? A log doesn't seem to be explicitly created or specified
>> in the scripts that are using it? Am I seeing some facility for
>> displaying a web page with the log in it upon completion for web-based
>> installs?
>
>
> The install log is created in the product directory by default (where the
> netscape executable is) if it can be, and if we don't have proper permission
> the install log is written to the user's profile directory.
>
>
>> dveditz: What does loadResources() do? What are the resources?
>
>
> It loads an arbitrary properties file (same format as chrome locale
> ..properties files) and returns a javascript object whose property names are
> the keys from that file and the values are the strings. This was requested
> by international so install scripts could be localized, although there is
> very little opportunity for XPInstall to display script-generated text at
> the moment.
>
> -Dan Veditz
