I'm using WiX 3.7 I managed to get WiX Minimal UI to work properly following the instructions from http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/wixui/wixui_dialog_library.html
When I used Arabic Licence file is shown incorrectly (first lines are blank), unless user scrolls the text area in which case the text starts to look as expected.
I already tried the advice from the page http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/wixui/wixui_customizations.html
Open your RTF file in WordPad and save it from there in order to remove the complex RTF content from the file. After saving it, rebuild your MSI.
My current approach is to write a Custom EULA Dialog, but I would prefer to stay with WiX UI Minimal builtin Dialog... Have you experienced this problem? Do you know how to overcome it?
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In WiX 3.9 and earlier, there was no way to customize the message that WixStdBA shows when the operation completed. I see that bugs 4149 and 4604 have been resolved as fixed. Which version of WiX are these fixes available in, and how do I use this new functionality?
In WiX v3.10.0.1403, support was added for specifying different strings for success/failure of install/repair/uninstall. If you're using the builtin theme and localization file, then you get the new strings automatically. Otherwise, look at the pull request to see what was added to the builtin themes and localization files and put them in your customized files.
In WiX v4.0.2603.0, breaking changes were made to the schema of theme files. As part of that change, the Text element was renamed to Label and the new Text element allows conditionally setting the text of a control. In WiX v4.0.2926.0, the builtin themes and localization files were updated to show the same text as v3.10 does. Take a look at that commit to see how that functionality was added.
My text message is stuck to "Install My Product to:"
How can I change this?
("My Product" is the name of my product and the string above is resolved based on the Name attribute in my Product.wxs).
I have 2 dialogs and the second requires a different message.
Some text on the built-in dialogs can be changed with variables specified in the localization file for your language. This is a simpler task than if you are trying to change text that is not kept in a variable.
This process is documented here.
However, if that's the case, the recommended way to change the dialog on the install page is to make a copy of and change the template file(s) provided with the WiX installation.
Copy the relevant .wxs files from your WiX dialog extension set (you will need to make sure you installed the WiX source) you want to modify and copy the file that specifies the UI extension name. Modify it to suit your needs and change the names.
When you compile your installer, you will use your new extension name (referring to your modified dialog set) and tell candle/light where your modified .wxs files are.
This process has some good documentation here and here.
Following the entire tutorial at the second link should get you pretty far.
Good luck
I'm trying to specify the licence for my wix setup project.
I have created a rtf with a few dummy lines in wordpad/notepad/vs tried a few different ways as I read there was an issue with ones created in word but I dont think that should apply here, in any case I also opened it up in notepad++ and verified there is no funky characters hidden in it.
I am specifying the file like so
<WixVariable Id="WixUILicenseRtf" Value="$(var.ProjectDir)\Resources\test.rtf" />
And the file exists under the project\Resources directory.
When I run the installer all that is shown in the licence area is a blank text box with no scroll bars etc.
Is there something else I should be doing?
Save the license.rtf from WordPad. See this webpage (http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/wixui/wixui_customizations.html), specifically this section:
There is a known issue with the rich
text control used to display the text
of the license file that can cause the
text to appear blank until the user
scrolls down in the control. This is
typically caused by complex RTF
content (such as the RTF generated
when saving an RTF file in Microsoft
Word). If you run into this behavior
in your setup UI, one of the following
workarounds will fix it in most cases:
Open your RTF file in WordPad and save
it from there in order to remove the
complex RTF content from the file.
After saving it, rebuild your MSI. Use
a dialog set other than the
WixUI_Minimal set. This problem
typically only occurs when the license
agreement screen is the first one
displayed during setup, which only
happens with the WixUI_Minimal dialog
set.
Thanks to #Daniel Powell's decision
Open WordPad
Write your text
Save by default(rtf)
Rebuild your msi
Profit.
Open trf file in wordpad instead of md-word, It will solve the scroll issue
<WixVariable Id="WixUILicenseRtf" Value="test.rtf" />
and include your test.rtf in the Setup project.
I've created a setup and deployment project for my vb.net application using the Visual Studio 2010 wizard. I also added the eula.rtf file to the setup project and set it to install to the user's application folder. I then added a license agreement UI dialog in the setup project and pointed the licenseFile to eula.rtf. However, when testing the resulting setup.msi, the UI License Agreement dialog appears but no text is displayed inside the box where the eula should appear. I tried re-naming the eula and tried to change the encoding of the file but without success. Am I missing something? What should I do to make it work?
Many thanks.
Did you actually create a .rtf in the proper format or did you just rename a text file? You'll need either Wordpad or Microsoft Word to create one. Wordpad is the better choice, it is likelier to create RTF in a format that the rich text box fully supports.
I'm creating a Windows Installer setup file using Wix and the standard UI library. I've supplied my own RTF file for the license agreement, but tables are not displaying correctly. Are tables supported in this case, and if so, what do I need to do to get them to display?
Basically, the cell border is only being drawn around the first line of text in a cell, and text from the 2nd column is flowing into the the first column. Here's a picture:
Badly formatted tables in RTF file displaying in Windows Installer http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/58fc5187b7.png
This thread discusses problems with RTF in installers, Bob Arnson recommends using WordPad to save the file. Apparently, that will create a simpler file which is more likely to display correctly.
The Windows Installer ScrollableText control doesn't support complex RTF, basically try to keep your RTF as simple as possible, always save in Wordpad and if it doesn't look like it's going to work.. it probably isn't.