Re: [WiX-users] Localized Product Version

2011-11-02 Thread Bob Arnson
On 02-Nov-11 11:43, Gareth wrote: > So what is the correct usage of Localizable="no" as an attribute of String? It might be helpful to quote a message you're replying to, especially when it's 2.5 years old. @Localizable is ignored; it's documentation for people doing the loc work. > Perhaps thi

Re: [WiX-users] Localized Product Version

2011-11-02 Thread Gareth
We also reference the same localized string to write the version number to the registry so we can query it as a potential launch condition for other products, ie. "This package will only install if so and so is version x or above." Hardcoding it requires a synchronized change in several places rat

Re: [WiX-users] Localized Product Version

2011-11-02 Thread Gareth
So what is the correct usage of Localizable="no" as an attribute of String? Are loc files not effectively just a string table, which are conveniently localizable? I too use localised version numbers, the reason being we release the same software in different markets/countries under different name

Re: [WiX-users] Localized Product Version

2009-02-26 Thread Bob Arnson
Matthias Rainer wrote: > Is there a reason why the version string cannot be localized? > Even though the version would be the same in every language, That's why: Loc strings are designed to be used for loc purposes. Feel free to file a bug so we can consider expanding the version parsing to con

Re: [WiX-users] Localized Product Version

2009-02-25 Thread Matthias Rainer
Hi everybody, After reading the reply to another post, I switched variables like the product version to preprocessor variables, which is pretty much what I have been looking for (since I only localized the version to reuse the variable). I'm still wondering though if I might have missed a reason