Seems like a reasonable feature request.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:19 AM, James Johnston <johnst...@inn-soft.com>wrote:
> Oh wow... Right now we just change it in our build script when calling
> light:
>
> light <parameters> -dWixUILicenseRtf=SupportFiles/License_${language}.rtf
> <more parameters>
>
> Which is also unnecessarily kludgy; that information really should be in
> the
> localization file but at the time I didn't figure out how (that blog entry
> was written after I wrote the setup project...).
>
> Your solution is better except that it involves modifying WiX source code.
> Any chance this might be added to a future version of WiX? This common
> task
> seems needlessly complicated. Maybe the change would break compatibility,
> but on the other hand the status quo of modifying WiX source code doesn't
> seem any better to me!
>
> Unless there is a better way that neither of us know about??
>
> James
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias S [mailto:tobias.s1...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 15:08
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Dynamically set WixVariable WixUILicenseRtf
>
> Ok, knew there exists an english speaking tutorial:
>
> http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2010/04/15/WiX-3-Tutorial-Custom-
> EULA-License-and-MSI-localization.aspx<http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2010/04/15/WiX-3-Tutorial-Custom-EULA-License-and-MSI-localization.aspx>
>
> 2011/2/18 Tobias S <tobias.s1...@gmail.com>:
> > You have to overwrite the default WiX dialog e.g. in WixUI_InstallDir
> > with a modified LicenseAgreementDlg.wxs:
> >
> > 1.) get the WiX Source code
> >
> >
> > 2.) from there add copies from
> > src\ext\UIExtension\wixlib\WixUI_InstallDir.wxs +
> > LicenseAgreementDlg.wxs to your solution renamed as
> > MyLicenseAgreementDlg.wxs + MyWixUI_InstallDir.wxs
> >
> >
> > 3.) MyLicenseAgreementDlg.wxs
> > change lines
> > <Dialog Id="LicenseAgreementDlg" Width="370" Height="270"
> > Title="!(loc.LicenseAgreementDlg_Title)">
> > -->
> > <Dialog Id="MyLicenseAgreementDlg" Width="370" Height="270"
> > Title="!(loc.LicenseAgreementDlg_Title)">
> >
> >
> >
> > <Control Id="LicenseText" Type="ScrollableText" X="20" Y="60"
> > Width="330" Height="140" Sunken="yes" TabSkip="no">
> > <Text SourceFile="!(wix.WixUILicenseRtf=$(var.licenseRtf))" />
> > </Control>
> >
> > -->
> >
> > <Control Id="LicenseText" Type="ScrollableText" X="20" Y="60"
> > Width="330" Height="140" Sunken="yes" TabSkip="no">
> > <Text SourceFile="!(loc.LicenseRtf)" /> </Control>
> >
> >
> > 4.) WixUI_InstallDir.wxs
> > change line
> > <UI Id="WixUI_InstallDir">
> > -->
> > <UI Id="MyWixUI_InstallDir">
> >
> > Replace all four occurences of LicenseAgreementDlg with
> MyLicenseAgreementDlg
> >
> >
> > 5.) Change in the main wxs the reference to the modified
> MyWixUI_InstallDir
> > <UIRef Id="WixUI_InstallDir"/>
> > -->
> > <UIRef Id="MyWixUI_InstallDir"/>
> >
> >
> > 6.) Add for every language a localization file with at least the
> > following content:
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <WixLocalization Culture="en-US"
> > xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization";>
> > <String Id="Language">1033</String>
> > <String Id="LicenseRtf">Languages\EnglishLicenseAgreement.rtf</String>
> > </WixLocalization>
> >
> >
> > Here LicenseRtf is the location of the localized License Agreement
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Tobias
> >
> >
> > 2011/2/18 Michael Tissington <michael_tissing...@ciqual.com>:
> >> How can I dynamically set the value of WixUILicenseRtf?
> >>
> >> I have tried <WixVariable Id="WixUILicenseRtf" Value="[PROPERTY_NAME]"/>
> >>
> >> What I'm trying to do is for each localization to use a different
> license.rtf.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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