InstallAnywhere Tutorial and Reference Guide

Dynamic and Static Text

Text that can be entered into the InstallAnywhere advanced designer is “dynamic text,” meaning that the developer can change its value. Text that cannot be edited by the advanced designer is referred to as “static text.” Standard items, such as file choosers and text for actions and panels the developer is unlikely to wish to change, have static text. Dynamic text is written to the locale files (located next to the project file). Translations of static text can be found in the <InstallAnywhere>\resource\ i18nresources directory. While developers are unlikely to need to change the static text, InstallAnywhere provides the developer with the option to change the static text.

Almost all dynamic text has default values in ...