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[dwightk]

Is the Premier version of IS 2008 absolutely needed in order to create a multilingual, localized installation? We need to implement a language selection dialog for just a few languages and run the installation in that language. We just upgraded to IS 2008 Pro and all our installers are pure InstallScript. Are there any reasons why we cannot implement this in the Pro version?

We have customized the graphics and at least part of the text on every dialog in our installers. If we purchase the Premier version, we will need to send the non-English string tables out for translation regardless, in order to customize the strings to be consistent with our English version. I'm wondering what we would be missing in the Pro version in order to add the additional language support we need. This is our first attempt to localize our installers and any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

[Stefan Krueger]

InstallShield Professional (except the German and Japanese editions, which support 2 languages) only supports 1 runtime language. If you want to localize yourself, you'd have to write all the required code, like setting to dialog text to localized strings etc. This would require the script code for all the dialogs.

Or maybe you could, on the fly or using a pre-launch exe, swap the dialog DLL and string tables.

[dwightk]

Hi Stefan, I appreciate your input. We decided to upgrade to Premier after all. Thanks for the reply!