Thanks Jacob, had tried 'lengthening' entries in the menu to rule that out, but apparently I must not have gone wide enough. Windows is indeed the culprit - once you are too wide, it displays both Name & Description in two lines for some silly reason.
Still wish that WIX would give me a warning, though.... K On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 01:21:33 +0000, Hoover, Jacob wrote: > Is it that you are shortening it or that Name != Description. > > Wix only makes MSI easier. MSI only creates the shortcuts, Windows is > responsible for displaying > the shortcuts (and their descriptions). > > I suspect you'd see the same behavior if you created the shortcuts manually > in your start menu. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kai Peters [mailto:kpet...@otaksoft.com] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 7:56 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] (no subject) > > Among many perfectly fine working shortcut defs I have the one below (strings > modified to protect > the innocent, but length of strings is preserved) > > > <Shortcut > Id="SHORT_MessageCenterShortcut" > Name="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Notification Center" > Description="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Notification Center" > Target="[MANUFACTURERFOLDER]xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.exe" Icon="NCIcon.ico" /> > > When hovering over the menu entry it creates, the hint displayed should be > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Notification Center > What is displayed, however, is this > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Notification Center > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Notification Center > > Twice the same line in a dual line hint window. > > The issue seems to be string length related - when I shorten the Name string > to 30 characters, > things work as expected. > Any string as long as the one above (or longer) results in this strange > behavior. > > Looks like a buffer overrun or sorts..? Not sure if Windows or WIX is the > culprit. If it turns > out to be Windows, it would be nice if WIX could issue at least a warning. > > Have other people seen this? > > Thanks, > Kai > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy > access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 > lines of code with a > free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the > world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX- > us...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want fast and easy > access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 > lines of code with a > free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the > world's largest code > search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds > _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX- > us...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
