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[Kiril]

Hello All
I am working on localization of my project. In the beginning I planed to add some language's string tables to my .ism, but do not translate all my custom English string.
I do want to update my .msi file late when our translation team will provide me all languages support. I've started to research how could I update/change .msi , and found that in binary table of .msi exists binary data for every language. For example String1033.txt or String1049.txt and I could export and import these tables with Orca. Also I paid attention that same .mst file were created in DISK1 folder, and these binary files also contain some string.
When I run my setup in window\temp directory were created both String1033.txt and 23e69024.mst. After some tries I understood that all dialog strings were loaded from .mst file and all strings that I called from script custom action were loaded from String1033.txt. And this is not good for me, because I can't update or change .mst files.
Do somebody knows how to force installation to use strings only from String1033.txt that always generated by .msi?
Or how could I update .mst files without Install Shield Developer?
I do not want to rebuild my project every time when some string in string table is changed.
Best Regards,
Kiril

[Stefan Krueger]

There are various tools that can edit MST file, including InstallShield and Orca.

[Kiril]

I use Orca version 1.10.1124.0 and it only can edit .msi or .msm files but not .mst

[Kiril]

I've opened .mst with InstallShield Developer , but string table doesn't exist there.
So how could I add new strings or languages

[Stefan Krueger]

Orca 2.0 can open MSTs.
String tbales only exist in the InstallShield project. In the built MST these strings are in the Control table, the Error table, the Feature table, and other tables that include localizable data.

[Johannes John]

Hello Stefan,

my Orca 2.0.2600 can't open MSTs.

Regards!
Johannes

[Stefan Krueger]

You can't laod a MST on its own but you can load a msi and then use the Transform menu (at least that works for me, using version 2.0.3672.0)