Unfortunately, no. Have you read through the WiX tutorial <http://wix.sf.net/tutorial>? I thought it had a nice section on languages in MSIs.
virtually, Rob Mensching - RobMensching.com LLC <http://robmensching.com> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:13 AM, mrtn <mrtn.frederik...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In stead of a bootstrapper - selecting the wanted transform - is it > possible > for the .msi file itself to select a transform file? Maybe in a C++ CA? > > > Blair-2 wrote: > > > > You get German since that is the first one in your list of Cultures. > > > > MSI has never officially supported the scenario you describe directly. > You > > are perfectly free to create per-language transforms and use an .EXE file > > to > > install your MSI with those transforms (the supported way). There are > some > > who have had success with embedding those same transforms based on a > > particular naming convention and having them auto-selected by the OS (not > > supported, but I'm told it works). There may or may not be issues with > > generating working MSP files if you use those transforms (you may have to > > mess with the transform applicability rules of the patch-supplied > > transforms > > depending on what the original language transforms did). > > > > You may be able to use the instance transform related tags in WiX, but I > > have never tried that so I don't know what gotchas you may find that way. > > Otherwise you may be able to link each language separately into .wixout > > files, generate your transforms from those, and bind the "baseline" > wixout > > into the MSI you subsequently apply each MST to. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Markus KARG [mailto:markus.k...@gmx.net] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:06 PM > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] Beginner's Question on Multi Language Installer > > > > Hello Everybody, > > > > > > > > I am new to both, MSI technology in general and the WiX product in > > particular, but I have some experience with some old InstallShield > > products > > (pre-MSI-age). > > > > > > > > InstallShield allowed me to simply add translated strings for lots of > > languages, so one single setup.exe contained the installer in multi > > languages. This was very smart since I was able to send the same > setup.exe > > to any country of the world. > > > > > > > > Now I want to write an installer with WiX that is also multi language (I > > don't want to have lots of setup.msi files, but only a single one). > > > > > > > > I wrote several .wxl files and linked them together using a line like > this > > one: > > > > > > > > light.exe -cultures:de,neutral;fr,neutral;en,neutral;neutral -loc de.wxl > > -loc fr.wxl -loc en.wxl -loc neutral.wxl Setup.wixobj > > > > > > > > (While actually told nowhere, it seems that neutral.wxl must contain ' > > .culture="". ' [i. e. empty string] to indicate that it is the neutral > > culture. I found out that by trial and error when adding the neutral > > fallback to each culture). > > > > > > > > What I expect to get from light.exe is one single .msi file containing > all > > four language packs: German, French, English and Neutral. Light provides > a > > single .msi so "from the outside" it seems to work. > > > > > > > > My target is that the Windows Installer at install time picks German, > > French > > or English strings automatically, depending on the user's current "Region > > and Language Settings" or instead picks neutral strings when the current > > user's local setting is neither German, French nor English (for example, > > "Polish" / "Poland"). > > > > > > > > While light v3 accepts the above line and does not complain in any way > > (not > > even ICE warnings), the Windows Installer picks Germany *always* when > > running the resulting .msi file on my laptop -- despite the current > > setting > > of "Polish" / "Poland" in the "Region and Language Settings" control > > panel. > > :-( > > > > > > > > Can anybody tell me what my fault is? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Markus > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > Come build with us! 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