Re: [WiX-users] using properties in string element

2008-04-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Sam wrote: I'm using it in the feature title and description attributes. Those columns in the Feature table aren't formatted, which explains why the properties aren't being expanded. The only way I can think of to change them is via a transform but that requires a bootstrapper to run

Re: [WiX-users] using properties in string element

2008-04-28 Thread Scott Sam
ourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] using properties in string element Scott Sam wrote: I define a property called APPNAME and set it with a value of "test". Then in my wxl file I have the following string element: [APPNAME] Client When I run the installer, the text shows

Re: [WiX-users] using properties in string element

2008-04-28 Thread Scott Sam
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Re: [WiX-users] using properties in string element

2008-04-28 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Sam wrote: I define a property called APPNAME and set it with a value of "test". Then in my wxl file I have the following string element: [APPNAME] Client When I run the installer, the text shows up as "[APPNAME] Client". Loc strings are substituted literally at bind time s

[WiX-users] using properties in string element

2008-04-28 Thread Scott Sam
I define a property called APPNAME and set it with a value of "test". Then in my wxl file I have the following string element: [APPNAME] Client When I run the installer, the text shows up as "[APPNAME] Client". I'm using wix v3 with votive. The wxl is part of a project that creates a wixl