Re: [WiX-users] Yet another localization question

2010-08-18 Thread Mike Carlisle
Thank you, that confirms my current understanding :) I hadn't released that cultures were just for fall-backs and couldn't understand why light accepted multiple wxls of different locales when the MSI can only hold 1. On 18 August 2010 14:53, Mike Carlisle wrote: > Thank you, that confirms my c

Re: [WiX-users] Yet another localization question

2010-08-18 Thread Nick Ramirez
You are right. An MSI can only be localized for one language. What that means is actually pretty simple. If you look inside the MSI database (with a tool like Orca.exe), you'll see that many of the tables contain text (the Control table, for instance). Once the MSI is built, these strings are ther

Re: [WiX-users] Yet another localization question

2010-08-18 Thread Mike Carlisle
Thank you - the first part of that makes perfect sense. The second part is still a little ambiguous to me. When you say the cultures flag decides which .wxl files are processed this implies that the MSI can contain more than one locale, ( as the cultures flag takes a list of cultures). I didn't th

Re: [WiX-users] Yet another localization question

2010-08-17 Thread Nick Ramirez
I think your question may stem from thinking that you have to specify localization files of different cultures with each -loc flag. However, you could also specify multiple .wxl files with the same culture. For example, if you had one .wxl file to handle all of the localization strings for your di

Re: [WiX-users] Yet another localization question

2010-08-17 Thread Mike Carlisle
olset and the SDK you have all the necessary > tools to create whatever you engineer. > > -Original Message- > From: Mike Carlisle [mailto:moik...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:09 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Yet another localization question

2010-08-17 Thread Blair
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:09 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Yet another localization question Hi, Sorry I've been reading through the localization threads and blogs and getting more confused. It seems to localize the MSI I need to use transforms and apply

[WiX-users] Yet another localization question

2010-08-17 Thread Mike Carlisle
Hi, Sorry I've been reading through the localization threads and blogs and getting more confused. It seems to localize the MSI I need to use transforms and apply these at install time. My question is why then does the linker accept multiple cultures and WXL files when it compiles the MSI? What is