User manual SYMANTEC WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 7.0 SP2 REFERENCE FOR WISE INSTALLATION EXPRESS V1.0

[. . . ] Windows Installer Editor Reference Windows Installer Editor The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Documentation version 7. 0 SP2 Legal Notice Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, and Altiris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. The product described in this document is distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation/reverse engineering. [. . . ] See Changing Text in Installation Expert and Setup Editor on page 263. You can use the Language Strings dialog box on the Languages page to keep track of changed and exported text strings. See Keeping Track of Changed Text Strings on page 268. Exporting Selected Text Strings to a File Export selected text strings when you add or change text strings in an installation that is translated to another language. Example: When you add a custom dialog box, you must translate the text in that dialog box to all other languages used in the installation. Windows Installer Editor Reference 259 Translating an Installation To export selected text strings 1. The drop-down list shows those languages that have translated text strings in this installation; they are indicated by a Yes in the Text Translated column on the Languages page. From Export As, select a file type for the text strings: Resource File Exports the dialog boxes and strings to a Visual C++ style resource file; this includes an . H (header) file. With a resource editor, you or the translator can resize dialog boxes appropriately for each language. Text File Exports the strings to a standard text file, in which fields are separated by tabs. Warning Make sure that the first two fields in the text file are not translated. These are the table and key names for the text strings and must remain intact. In File Name, specify the full path for the file to export text strings to. From Export Options, select which strings to export: New or changed strings since last export Export strings that were added or changed since you last exported text strings for translation. New or changed strings in installation Export all strings that were added or changed in this installation. All strings in current language Export all the text strings in the language you selected from the Language drop-down list. All strings in default language Export the text strings in the default language for the . WSI. This is either the Default language on the Language menu or the default release language defined on the Language Details dialog box. To include the installation's file and directory names in the export file, mark Export File and Directory Names. 5. 10. The text strings are exported to the file you specified, which you can send to a translator. When you receive the translated file from the translator, you import the text strings into the installation. See Importing Selected Text Strings From a File. Windows Installer Editor Reference 260 Translating an Installation Importing Selected Text Strings From a File When you add or change text strings in an installation that is translated to another language, you must export the changed text strings and have them translated. When you receive translated text strings from the translator, you import them into the installation so that those text strings appear in the correct language in the compiled installation. To import selected text strings 1. In Translated Strings File, specify the name of the file that contains the translated text strings. [. . . ] This defaults to the value of the build property named ProductVersion. See Build Properties on page 503. Remove Previous If this is set to 1, the end user is prompted to remove any previously installed versions of the same application. It is set to 1 if you mark the Prompt to remove previous version before installing check box on the Build Options page. Contains the relative path of the file that installs Windows Installer for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. [. . . ]