Re: [WiX-users] Best Practice for using Variables
it was so simple. if i include my *.wxi in ervery fragment all works fine. Brian Rogers schrieb: Hey Kai-Uwe, I imagine that the varible definations are not correctly declared in your wixproj file. What you have listed below should work with $(var.xxx). The !(loc.xxx) and !(wix.xxx) is used later by lit or light to replace the variables for localization or wixlibs. Thanks, Brian Rogers Intelligence removes complexity. - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Kai-Uwe Teske kai-uwe.te...@inosoft.comwrote: Hi All, i am stumbling around with my first Wix Project using variables. Could someone explain when i had to use $(var.xyz) and !(loc.abc)? Why i couldn't write things like that in my Directory Attribute? Directory Id=unique ende?lp=endep=thMx..search=unique_id$(var.abc) Name=$(var.abc) Error: Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.abc)'. Directory Id=unique ende?lp=endep=thMx..search=unique_id!(loc.abc) Name=!(loc.abc) Error: The Directory/@Id attribute's value, 'unique_id!(loc.abc)', is not a legal identifier. Why i couldn't write $(var.name) in my Source Attribute, File Id=_id Name=FileName.dll Source=$(var.name)\WPF.Controls\WPF.Controls.dll / but !(loc.name) works? File Id=_id Name=FileName.dll Source=!(loc.name)\WPF.Controls\WPF.Controls.dll / All vars are defined in a include.wxi not in a .wixproj file All loc are defined in WixLocalization file. Wix Version 3.0.5120.0 3.0.5120.0/ Best regards Kai-Uwe -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Best Practice for using Variables
Hey Kai-Uwe, I imagine that the varible definations are not correctly declared in your wixproj file. What you have listed below should work with $(var.xxx). The !(loc.xxx) and !(wix.xxx) is used later by lit or light to replace the variables for localization or wixlibs. Thanks, Brian Rogers Intelligence removes complexity. - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Kai-Uwe Teske kai-uwe.te...@inosoft.comwrote: Hi All, i am stumbling around with my first Wix Project using variables. Could someone explain when i had to use $(var.xyz) and !(loc.abc)? Why i couldn't write things like that in my Directory Attribute? Directory Id=unique ende?lp=endep=thMx..search=unique_id$(var.abc) Name=$(var.abc) Error: Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.abc)'. Directory Id=unique ende?lp=endep=thMx..search=unique_id!(loc.abc) Name=!(loc.abc) Error: The Directory/@Id attribute's value, 'unique_id!(loc.abc)', is not a legal identifier. Why i couldn't write $(var.name) in my Source Attribute, File Id=_id Name=FileName.dll Source=$(var.name)\WPF.Controls\WPF.Controls.dll / but !(loc.name) works? File Id=_id Name=FileName.dll Source=!(loc.name)\WPF.Controls\WPF.Controls.dll / All vars are defined in a include.wxi not in a .wixproj file All loc are defined in WixLocalization file. Wix Version 3.0.5120.0 3.0.5120.0/ Best regards Kai-Uwe -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Best Practice for using Variables
Hi All, i am stumbling around with my first Wix Project using variables. Could someone explain when i had to use $(var.xyz) and !(loc.abc)? Why i couldn't write things like that in my Directory Attribute? Directory Id=unique ende?lp=endep=thMx..search=unique_id$(var.abc) Name=$(var.abc) Error: Undefined preprocessor variable '$(var.abc)'. Directory Id=unique ende?lp=endep=thMx..search=unique_id!(loc.abc) Name=!(loc.abc) Error: The Directory/@Id attribute's value, 'unique_id!(loc.abc)', is not a legal identifier. Why i couldn't write $(var.name) in my Source Attribute, File Id=_id Name=FileName.dll Source=$(var.name)\WPF.Controls\WPF.Controls.dll / but !(loc.name) works? File Id=_id Name=FileName.dll Source=!(loc.name)\WPF.Controls\WPF.Controls.dll / All vars are defined in a include.wxi not in a .wixproj file All loc are defined in WixLocalization file. Wix Version 3.0.5120.0 3.0.5120.0/ Best regards Kai-Uwe -- ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
