We made an application that makes data logging, and remote control of instruments via serial Modbus network (RS232-RS485 conversions are made by external hardware module we made by ourselves).
Now this program has been localized into 4 languages, so we have about 20 text "tag" files with all the strings translated (buttons, controls, error messages, ecc...) and the program load the files that it finds under the "Language" directory.
There is no possibility to change language runtime, so there is an installer for *every* language.
This means a lot of wasted space!!
100 Megabyte for english +
100 Mb for spanish +
100 Mb for xyz and so on.
but the difference among them is only say 100kb of text files!
Obviously the CD has a limited space
The internal installer builder in LV 8.2.1 is very limited compared to commercial programs or the full flexibility of Visual Studio solutions. The supported languages are very few, so it's not possibile to build up a setup.exe completely translated.
So I', asking if someone has successfully tried an external program to build a setup, or if you can suggest a cheap software that has multilanguage support.
The premiere version of InstallShield is expensive to the hell (>6000 bucks).
That would save space because we can keep the code unchanged, and build a properly translated installer that copies the main program plus the appropriate language subfolder
thanks
