Like pretty much everything else that looks like it works but isn't officially approved is due to the fact that "it" doesn't always work correctly. I do not remember the specific case here but I'm pretty sure it had to do with some UI cases.
Anyway, using features that aren't documented to work creates one or both of the following problems: 1. You app might break in the future (if the Windows Installer changes it's behavior). 2. The platform gets stuck supporting poor designs because some "popular" application(s) decided to take a dependency on a non-supported feature. If this doesn't make sense, go read Raymond Chen's blog for a while. <grin/> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DEÁK JAHN, Gábor Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 10:41 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] multiple languages in single installer On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:47:57 -0700, Jeb Remus wrote: Jeb, > I understand how WIX can generate N installer for N different > language files, which is really great. I was wondering however if > there is any functionality to combine N language files into a > single installer, that would detect user or system locale at run time. Yes, see http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/articles/embeddedlang/index.htm . It isn't documented but MS itself uses it (actually, because it is very straightforward and I can't see any reason for abandoning this feature in any coming version of Windows Installer, I don't really understand why it isn't officially approved). Bye, Gábor ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEÁK JAHN, Gábor -- Budapest, Hungary E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
