[wix-users] Use variables in bundle theme
Edwin Castro
egcastr at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 11:23:59 PDT 2018
The theme file is not compiled (and thus not preprocessed). Burn reads the
theme file at install time which is why any referenced properties have to
exist at runtime.
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Edwin G. Castro
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Helge Kruse via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> Sorry for writing the question in the wrong way. I gave the snippet from
> the theme.wxs that includes a file Defines.wxs directly. The bundle doesn't
> need to know the version of the MSI. It should have it's own version, I
> just gave both the same version by sharing the include file.
>
> How can I customize a line in the theme.xml independent of the
> localization? I would prefere if the version could be set in the include
> file. But I want to avoid changing the theme.xml for each version of the
> bundle.
>
> Regards,
> Helge
>
>
> Am 25.06.2018 um 15:48 schrieb Blaine Wheeler via wix-users:
>
>> The bundle doesn't know the msi version unless you have it stored as a
>> property the bundle can read in the bundle's wxs as you create the bundle.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 3:43 AM Helge Kruse via wix-users <
>> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
>>
>> I have an installer package (MSI) that is packed in a bundle. The
>>> bundle adds the required run-time libraries.
>>>
>>> I want to show the current version in the bundle's welcome dialog. For
>>> that purpose I customized the theme file:
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>> <?include Defines.wxi?>
>>> <Theme xmlns="http://wixtoolset.org/schemas/thmutil/2010">
>>> ...
>>> <Page Name="Install">
>>> <Text Name="X" X="50" Y="100" FontId="3" Height="80"
>>> Width="300">This is mySoft #(var.CurrentVersion)</Text>
>>> ...
>>> </Page>
>>> </Theme>
>>>
>>> The file Defines.wxi contains just the definition of the current version:
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>> <Include>
>>> <?define CurrentVersion="1.03.01"?>
>>> </Include>
>>>
>>> The Bundle.wxs references the theme file using
>>> WixStandardBootstraspperApplication:
>>>
>>> <Bundle Name="mySoft" Version="$(var.CurrentVersion)"
>>> Manufacturer="me" UpgradeCode="GUID">
>>> <BootstrapperApplicationRef
>>> Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense" >
>>> <bal:WixStandardBootstrapperApplication LicenseFile="lic.rtf"
>>> ThemeFile="Theme.xml" />
>>> </BootstrapperApplicationRef>
>>> </Bundle>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately the CurrentVersion is not expanded when the bundle is
>>> build. How can this be done?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Helge
>>>
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