7 replies to this topic

[jive02]

Hi, I need to know in what langauge the installation is running. Could I then put this in the ragistry and use it so I don't have to ask the user again on uninstall?

Is there someone who knows?

[Stefan Krueger]

SELECTED_LANGUAGE system variable

[jive02]

When I use

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GetSystemInfo(SELECTED_LANGUAGE,nResult,svResult)

I get a sad -1 in return..

[jive02]

How do I access SELECTED_LANGUAGE?
GetSystemInfo doesn't seem to work..

Also, does someone know how to recieve the
system language from an MFC app?

[Ide Nentjes]

From IS 6.31 documentation:

The language that the setup uses to display prompts and messages is stored in the system variable SELECTED_LANGUAGE. Simply use this variable if you wish to know which langauage IS is running in.

Correct Call to GetSystemInfo:

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GetSystemInfo(LANGUAGE,nvLanguage,svLanguage);

See GetSystemInfo documentation for more info

[jive02]

I feel really stupid now but it must be something here that I don't get. To retrieve SELECTED_LANGUAGE I should use

GetSystemInfo(LANGUAGE,nResult,sResult), is that right?

From this I get "English" probably because I got an English win2000-installation, even though my locale is "swedish".

GetSystemInfo(SELECTED_LANGUAGE,nResult,sResult)

Gives me nothing at all, it returns -1. The language I want is the one the user selected in the very beginning of the installation, not the locale, not the system language( even though I would be intrested of accessing the locale as well).

Please don't get upset over me asking so much about so little, guess I'm a bit slow or something but I'd be really happy if someone could help me out here

[Blake Miller Wonder]

The SELECTED_LANGUAGE is already set for you, and it is a variable in its own right.

Here is an example of InstallScript code we use to choose a specific language resource dll:

// choose resource dll based on install language
switch( SELECTED_LANGUAGE )
 case 0x0009: // english
   szDllPath = SUPPORTDIR ^ "WWSPHFR0009.DLL";
 case 0x0007: // german
   szDllPath = SUPPORTDIR ^ "WWSPHFR0007.DLL";
 case 0x0011: // japanese
   szDllPath = SUPPORTDIR ^ "WWSPHFR0011.DLL";
 case 0x040C: // french
   szDllPath = SUPPORTDIR ^ "WWSPHFR040C.DLL";
 default: // english
   szDllPath = SUPPORTDIR ^ "WWSPHFR0009.DLL";
endswitch;

[jive02]

You're the man!

Thanks a lot!