to get the favorite language.
Now, if you are trying to install, say, just one language, that's not
standard. Mac OS X installers typically install all the languages,
and the
few users that are concerned can run a utility to get rid of unused
languages (Monolingual is one).
If you want to get a language to show the user some text during
install:
1) Please try to do all your interaction before the user clicks
install
2) if you can't do that, do
su $USER -c "whatever_command arguments"
On Mar 9, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Glover,David wrote:
I'm trying out a few different things to retrieve the default
language
the machine is running in.
What is really strange is that this works ok in a script...
defaults read -g AppleLocale
But that's not perfect as it's the language I'm trying to retrieve
rather than the locale. By getting AppleLanguages, I can get the
first
language in the list.
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Kuehn [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: 09 March 2009 17:00
To: Glover,David
Cc: Installer-Dev mailing-list
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with defaults read in install script
On Mar 9, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Glover,David wrote:
I'm using a preinstall script to read the available languages on the
machine as follows;
defaults read -g AppleLanguages
This is fine via a Terminal command, or when running the script by
Terminal, but when the script is run by Installer, the following is
outputted;
"The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication,
AppleLanguages) does not exist"
Has anybody come across this unusual behaviour before? Why has
Installer decided to start lying to me?
Installer isn't lying to you, it is telling you that for the
user
that you are running at at that point the list of default languages
is
not. This is true for any non-GUI user (try running this with sudo
for
instance). This command is essentially calling:
defaults read .GlobalPreferences AppleLanguages
And many users do not have a file at
~username/.GlobalPreferences.plist
What are you really trying to accomplish here? And are you sure
that
the installer is the appropriate place for this?
--
Karl Kuehn
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