On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Dave Brotherstone <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the application, we have a language definition file that contains the > localized strings for each language, and a single file that represents the > active language. I would like to offer the user a drop down of available > languages (defaulted to the current UserLanguageID) and then copy the > relevant file to the active language file. > > I could do this with a custom action, and accept that I will need one to > map the UserLanguageID to our filename, However, reading the "custom action > = admission of failure", I'm sure there must be a way to copy a > user-specified installed file? CopyFile seems to either copy a single > installed file (given a fixed FileId), or a user selected file (ie from a > property) that already exists before install? > Answering my own question, after days of googling, an hour after I sent the message to the list I solved this using a Component for each language, with a Condition that the selected language was that component's language. I got a warning for each one that the same file could be copied more than once if the conditions aren't mutually exclusive, but they are, so I presume I can safely ignore that. Thanks for any other suggestions... Cheers, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
