RE: How to localize distribution package's requirements message
RE: How to localize distribution package's requirements message
- Subject: RE: How to localize distribution package's requirements message
- From: "Glover,David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:39:51 +0100
- Thread-topic: How to localize distribution package's requirements message
You might find it easier to create the .mpkg once, and then just update
and amend your .dist script manually after that. You can create the
.pkg(s) individually using Iceberg/PackageMaker, and then copy them into
the Packages folder in your .mpkg.
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From:
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le.com] On Behalf Of Ben Staveley-Taylor
Sent: 10 September 2009 09:44
To: Iceberg-Dev
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: How to localize distribution package's requirements message
Thanks again for your reply.
I can see how the distribution.dist script should look now (and I've
taken a look at the one Apple use in the iWork Trial installer). I'm
just puzzled how you are supposed to author it. If I enter
system.localizedString('MY_KEY_MESSAGE') in PackageMaker's
Requirements Failure Message field, that gets quoted in the script as
my.result.message = 'system.localizedString(\'MY_KEY_MESSAGE\')';
so again it appears literally in the alert instead of being processed
as a script command. I can only surmise that to get this to work you
have to manually author your distribution.dist file and then replace
(or merge it with) the one that PackageMaker generates.
It's all just too troublesome and error-prone, IMO. Fortunately I am
only installing a single package, so I can fall back to the deprecated
InstallationCheck script and its InstallationCheck.strings
localization file. That seems to do what I need, so I'm happy.
Coupled with other PackageMaker deficiencies -- specifically that it
keeps silently re-enabling my "Allow Relocation" component settings
and thus building an installer that puts files in the wrong places --
I'm going to use Iceberg as my authoring tool. I've already got a more
reliable installer out of Iceberg in a day than I had in a week with
PackageMaker. I'd definitely recommend it.
-- Ben.
On 9 Sep 2009, at 21:59, Iceberg-Dev wrote:
>>
>
> I just forgot to mention that you need to call a JavaScript method.
>
> my.result.title = system.localizedString('MY_KEY_TITLE');
>
> my.result.message = system.localizedString('MY_KEY_MESSAGE');
>
>
> mea culpa
>
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