Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a

2011-07-23 Thread Rob Mensching
Thanks. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Robert Perona wrote: > I downloaded the source and changed the compiler and linker to use null, > \x0, instead of tab, \t, and it resolved the problem confirming my earlier > suspician. I will open it as a bug. > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Robert Pe

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a

2011-07-22 Thread Robert Perona
I downloaded the source and changed the compiler and linker to use null, \x0, instead of tab, \t, and it resolved the problem confirming my earlier suspician. I will open it as a bug. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Robert Perona wrote: > I experimented some more with orca after looking at the "

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a

2011-07-22 Thread Robert Perona
I experimented some more with orca after looking at the "Archive File Format" in the MSI SDK, and saw the translation of tabs to char 16(DLE). >From digging into the source, it appears the compiler uses a tab delimited intermediate format to pass custom table rows to the linker, however it does no

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a custom table

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Hmm, we escape IDT chars to allow tabs to flow through. The issue is probably just to allow CustomTable/Column to set the "escape chars" bit. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 20-Jul-11 17:59, Robert Perona wrote: > > When there are tabs in the custom table data a compilati

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a custom table

2011-07-20 Thread Bob Arnson
On 20-Jul-11 17:59, Robert Perona wrote: > When there are tabs in the custom table data a compilation error occurs, as > if the compiler thinks the tab is attempting to create another column. > I have tried an actual tab, xml escaped tab ( ), and msi escaping a tab > ([{tab}], where {tab} is an act

Re: [WiX-users] How do you add data containing a tab in a custom table

2011-07-20 Thread Christopher Painter
Try representing it as   --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Robert Perona To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 4:59 PM Subject: [WiX-us