localization (different installer in different langauges)

Question

hi

i made an  windows application and now need to deploy that application in different language versions. for the time being by the property of windows installer (at design time) i got a property of Localization and got 12 language options to get installer in following languages

english =
chinease simplified =
chinease traditional =
french =
german =
italian =
japanese =
korean  =
portuguese =
russian =
spanish =

thats' good but i need to translate my installer in some other languages which i m mentioning:

arabic
danish
dutch
finnish
greek
hebrew
hindi
norwegian
swedish
thai
turkish

plz tell me how can i translate my installer version only in above mentioned languages

Answer 1

You'd need to do it manually, updating the text in the MSI file using Orca from the Windows SDK. Most of the text is in the Control table and the Property table.

Answer 2

hi Muhammad,,,,

 

I have the same issue here... did you solve your problem???

 

if yes, plz tell me how to do that??

 

Thanks so much;

 

Answer 3

oh man use orca.exe for it

Answer 4

ahaaa... so Orca.exe is the solution for any thing related to setup controls .. such as masked password

 

Answer 5

yes somehow orca.exe is awesome we can even install visual studio 2005 without winxp sp2 using orca and ofcourse our mind i wrote couple of blogs about it at my blog site http://realfantasy.wordpress.com

but i didn't get your point about masked password can u dilebate it plz and thanks for confirming about your gender

Answer 6

well.....I meant if you want to make any Textbox in your setup wizard displays stars(****) instead of real value, you need to use Orca.exe...

 

there is also another way to do that...check this:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1446760&SiteID=1

 

both of them do the same thing,, which is change the textbox attribute...

 

anyways, I have a question about the Arabic text in the setup project....

 

I downloaded the Orac.exe ,then I opened the .msi file and I changed the body text of the cancel dialog(in the control table)... also I changed the ProductLanguage in the property table to 1025 (Arabic Langauge)....

but when I ran this setup, I got garbage insead of Arabic Text

 

what shall I do to slove this problem???

 

Thanks...

 

Answer 7

No comment!!!

Answer 8

All that does is tell Windows Installer which 'codepage' to use to display the strings. It does not switch to a different set of strings.

 

To retranslate strings, you need to go to [Program Files]\Visual Studio [ver]\Common7\tools\deployment\vsddialogs.

Copy the 1033 folder to something like 1025.  Then open each .WID and .WIM file and edit all the display text...

the two places you are most likely to find them are in the Control table and Property table.  It's kind of tricky, and lots of dialogs and controls, etc...  it's a lot of work.

sorry i was busy thats y couldn't reply, u can email me your IM id at [e-mail] .. hopefully we could learn from each other and could be in touch in better way. best of luck

Answer 9

No comment!!!

Answer 10

We have been waiting several years for new languages to be added. Will there be any? Ever?
What about Nordic languages?
Using orca isn't that fun.

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