Jim,
Works a charm! I saw some examples like that but confused them with $
(loc.PACKAGE_ROOT).
regards,
James
On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Jim Williams wrote:
> I think you need to code it as:
>
> <Text SourceFile="$(var.PACKAGE_ROOT)\License.rtf" />
>
> Jim
>
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> Burgess
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:16 PM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Substituting values with Candle
>
> Hi,
> I'd like to use an rtf file in my installer and share that rtf
> file
> with many msi building projects. So to achieve that instead of copy
> the
> rtf to each of the project directories I'd like to so something like
>
> <Control Id="AgreementText" Type="ScrollableText" ...
> <Text SourceFile="$PACKAGE_ROOT\License.rtf" />
> </Control>
>
> And then run candle with something like candle
> -dPACKAGE_ROOT="c:\package\resource" ui.wxs
>
> But this doesn't work as PACKAGE_ROOT doesn't get replaced. Is there
> anyway to pass in this variable for substitution to candle?
>
> cheers,
> James
>
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