Summary

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This article provides information about how to create, add, and reference an external resource bundle.

Discussion

<bundle_name>_<language_code>.properties

Note: bundle_name can be any name, however, this must be the same for the other locale properties file you have in the same external resource bundle

<language_code> is the language code for one of the InstallAnywhere supported locales. Note that you must create a properties file for each locale that you plan to support.

If you have an English locale file like custom_en.properties, then when you create locale files (in the same resource bundle) for other languages, like French for example, it should be custom_fr.properties. The naming format of the locale files should be same except the language code like fr, en in the above example.

You can define your key/value pairs for each localized string in the properties file

<Key>=<value>

• In InstallAnywhere Advanced Designer IDE, go to Project > Locales
• In the External Resource Bundle Settings, double click on the space below ?Bundle Name?
• Type a Bundle Name of the external resource bundle you want to use, such as 'custom' in the above example
• Double click on the space below Resource Bundle Path. It will pop up a ?Choose A File? window, from where you can browse and select one of the locale properties files

$L{<bundle_name>.<key>}

where bundle_name is the name provided in the External Resource Bundle Settings on the Project -> Locales task.