silent install / multilanguage

o_owd
19th June 2009 18:51 UTC

silent install / multilanguage
Hello,

I have to add silent install support to one of our intallers.
Our installer has multi language support.
How can I choose the language to install during a silent install ?
Maybe with an answer file ? But how ? The languages have IDs or should I check the name of the language ?

Thanks.

Afrow UK
20th June 2009 16:36 UTC

I don't think NSIS has a built in command line switch for specifying the language but it is straight forward to add one using GetParameters followed by GetOptions. For example:


${If} ${Silent}
  ${GetParameters} $R0
  ${GetOptions} $R0 `/lang=` $LANGUAGE
${Else}
  .. display language selection
${EndIf}

If you don't want to specify locale id's you could specify language names (i.e. /lang=English) and you'd then need to:


  ${GetParameters} $R0
  ${GetOptions} $R0 `/lang=` $R0
  ${If} $R0 == `English`
    StrCpy $LANGUAGE ${LANG_ENGLISH}
  ${ElseIf} $R0 == ...
    ...
  ${EndIf}

Stu

o_owd
20th June 2009 17:29 UTC

Thanks,
I will try it.