Blair Thanks for your comment We are working on WIX 2.0 and have a wxl file. We use some strings that are a part of WixUI_en-us.wxl while we have some other strings that are specific to our product. We cannot have these as two separate files (i.e. we cannot use the WixUI_en-us.wxl file for common strings while using a separate file for product specific strings) since wxl files cannot have same string Ids in 2.0. Can we copy the contents of the WixUI_en-us.wxl file and just add our product strings to this file, so that we can have a single localization file. Please let us know if this is standard practice.
-Naufal. -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:46 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] resource strings issue with wix 2.0 I just took a quick glance at the wix 2.0 code. You can supply more than one WXL file to light.exe. You just can't duplicate any strings AND the CodePage must match. Go ahead and put your custom strings in a new file. You just can't override any strings already in the WixUI_en-us.wxl without replacing or editing it. -Blair -----Original Message----- From: Naufal Basheer (Aditi) [mailto:v-na...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:24 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] resource strings issue with wix 2.0 Thank for your replay , At present situation its difficult to migrate to Wix 3.x, In this scenario updating "WixUI_en-us.wxl" is the standard practice ? Thanks Naufal -----Original Message----- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:03 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] resource strings issue with wix 2.0 On 27-Sep-10 08:17, Naufal Basheer (Aditi) wrote: > We have an installer for which we are using both built-in Wix and > custom dialogs. Is there a way to use the existing WixUIExtension.dll resource file for build-in resource strings and use a separate resource file for our custom strings? We are running on WIX 2.0 and do not want to create a file which contains strings that are already a part of WixUIExtension.dll (WixUI_en-us.wxl). WiX v2.0 doesn't have WixUIExtension.dll. If you're moving to WiX v3.x, you don't have to do anything special to reference strings that ship in WixUIExtension.dll; WiX will use the first string it finds, unless overridden using the Overridable attribute on the String element. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
