GUI Localization

InstallAnywhere 2018

Nearly every text string in an InstallAnywhere project can be localized. Translations of the text of built-in InstallAnywhere screens and dialog boxes are already provided. InstallAnywere supports 31 different locales.

If developers want to further modify text strings by locale, the string files are output each time an installer is built, in a folder called <project_name>locales. This folder is in the same directory as the build output folder, and the files contained there are named by locale code. For example, the default English (locale code, en) locale file has the name custom_en.

These locale files contain the text string grouped by the name of the action to which it belongs. Developers may alter the text string and, upon the next build of the installer, the new localized text will be displayed with the action.

Note • InstallAnywhere also supports an alternative localization scheme based on the use of custom resource bundles. See External Resource Bundles for more information.

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