Good points. I don't necessarily like defaulting to en-US, just because WiX
is being used quite heavily in other locales (German, Russian, and Dutch are
ones that come to mind). However, defaulting to the OS culture makes a lot
of sense. Let me know if you have any other suggestions as you dig more into
your project.
Thanks,
Justin
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Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:41 AM
To: Ashman, Jared; Levi Wilson; Simon Dahlbacka
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 and UI
Ah, that did it, thanks. Probably just a bug with the settings not being
saved in both cases. I know I've done the same thing more than once.
As for Justin's question, the only thing I can think of off the top of my
head is to at least automatically define the en-US culture when adding the
reference to the UI DLL. If nothing else, this will mean that anyone who
wants to compile to en-US will be able to do so without digging through
properties, and others will be able to find the culture settings if they
need to. Picking up the automatically included culture from the OS could
also be an option, as would automatically including at least one culture in
the properties, and then ignoring it if it's not needed (i.e. not compiling
with the DLL). I'll see what else I come up with as I start venturing into
more custom UI along the way (which I suspect will introduce a bunch of new
questions).
Chris
From: Ashman, Jared [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:28 PM
To: Chris Bardon; Levi Wilson; Simon Dahlbacka
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Votive v3 and UI
Chris,
If you add the en-US to the field, then open the advanced properties below
that, then save, it does save the culture.
The important step is the advanced properties for some reason.
Jared M. Ashman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Bardon
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:39 AM
To: Levi Wilson; Simon Dahlbacka
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 and UI
I noticed that field, but adding a culture value to it doesn't appear to do
anything. I tried en-US, en-US;, and even the example en-US;ja-JP listed
below the textbox, and I still got the same errors. Adding the wxs file
directly seems to be the only thing that works.
From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:35 PM
To: Simon Dahlbacka
Cc: Chris Bardon; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 and UI
Maybe that's what it was...that it was TOO easy :-) I usually miss those.
On 3/13/07, Simon Dahlbacka < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
Yes, (at least "semi obvious")
Using votive you select project properties (right-click project ->
properties, select linker tab) specify e.g. "en-US" in the Cultures textbox,
and add a reference to WixUIExtension
On 3/13/07, Chris Bardon < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
Thanks for the reply-I managed to get it to work by adding a copy of the
.wxl to the project, but I can't find anywhere to modify the light command
line in the project. Am I just missing something obvious?
On a semi-related note, is there something special you have to do with
Votive to customize bitmaps from one of the UI libs? I tried creating a
bitmaps directory, below the wxs file, but it seems to be ignored
(regardless of whether the new bitmaps are added to the project or not). Is
it not possible to customize the dialogs when using the WixUIExtension DLL?
I'm planning on creating my own UI lib based off of Mondo, but I'd like to
be able to customize it with different graphics when referenced in different
setups.
From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:50 AM
To: Chris Bardon
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Votive v3 and UI
When using WiX UI stuff from the WixUIExtension DLL in version 3, you need
to add:
"-ext WixUIExtension -cultures:en-us"
To the light command-line. This should take care of a lot of those
warnings.
On 3/13/07, Chris Bardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been going through the tuorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ and
adapting to some of the v3 changes as I go, and I've run across a problem
with adding UI elements. If I put in the UIRef elements <UIRef Id
="WixUI_Mondo" /> and <UIRef Id=" WixUI_ErrorProgressText " /> I get an
unresolved symbol reference. Makes sense, since there's no reference to the
UI lib. I checked in the target directory for the Votive/WiX MSI from the
website though, and there's no wixlib files in the install directory.
There's a WixUIExtension.dll that I can reference, but this doesn't seem to
have any of the strings defined (LGHT0102 gets raised 552 times). It looks
like I have to link using the WXL file for the language, but none of the WXL
files are installed with the package. Is there no way to build an installer
without downloading the source? Since I'm trying to set up a build process
for Wix editing/installer creation where any developer on the team can
edit/publish installers, I'd rather have everything they need to be
encapsulated in a redstributable (i.e. not a separate source download). Is
there just something that I'm missing with getting Votive to build using a
UI?
Thanks for the help
Chris
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