It is possible add localization support to one install database, I’m just not sure if that’s what we should do.  I would personally like to see different databases and error templates for each language.  That way dialogs/errors/action text would not look weird if the display of a certain language exceeds the display of another, since you could define specific width/height properties for each control in the localized database.  The downside to this is that updates to each install database would become repetitive and tedious.  I would like to leave this open to debate though…

 

Also, relevant MSDN links are below:

 

Steps for how to localize: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">

A localization example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url="">

 

 

Jim

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:01 AM
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Subject: [NAntC-Dev] MSITask - Internationalisation

 

I will need to create a German setup program at some point in the future. So I will have to translate everything anyways and would like to somehow contribute that back to the public… Can’t promise when though ;)

 

But we could start thinking on how to do that now already, right? I guess I could just create a new msi template file, so that there will be different templates for different languages. But that doesn’t look really great to me… Ideally I would like to have one msi file in the end that can display its UI in different languages, depending on the platform it is executed on.

 

Is that something for a transform?!? If anybody could point me in the right direction how to do it in a way that I can integrate it into NAntContrib, it would be very cool.

 

Thanks

David

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