Including Language-Specific Files and Components
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The next step in creating a global installation involves including language-specific files and components within your installation project. For example, although many of your program files may be language-independent, your help files and run-time strings are both language-specific. For the purpose of this exercise, you will add three new components to your project. Each component contains a Readme file that is localized in all of your supported languages.
To add a component to your project:
| 1. | In the View List under Organization, click Setup Design. |
| 2. | In the Setup Design explorer, right-click the feature called ProgramFiles, and then click New Component. |
| 3. | Type English_Readme for the component’s name. |
| 4. | Repeat this process two more times. Name these components Polish_Readme and German_Readme. |
Translated versions of a simple Readme file are included with InstallShield. These files are located in one of the Samples subfolders within the InstallShield Program Files folder:
InstallShield Program Files Folder\Samples\WindowsInstaller\Basic Installation Project\Data Files\Readme
To add a file to the English_Readme component:
| 1. | Expand the new English_Readme component, and then click the Files icon under the English_Readme component. |
| 2. | Right-click in the Files list and click Add. |
| 3. | Browse to the English.txt file, and then click Open. |
Repeat these steps for the German and Polish components, adding Deutsch.txt to and Polski.txt, respectively.