My comment about using persisted variables is based on this thread <http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Burn-Resume-Installation-Plan-td7579146.html#a7579182> , and posibly others that I may have stumbled across.
I transitioned from using a bafunctions.dll (with Wix 3.7 and 3.8) to using a mba in late 2013, so my memory of some aspects of using bafunctions.dll, WixStdBA, and wxl, may be getting foggy. Maybe I did not need to set bal:Overridable when only reading a variable, I'm not sure, but the practice I have followed is to set bal:Overridable if I do anything with the variable in the BA (which includes a bafunctions.dll). My mba has it's own resource strings which I use, based on the thread's culture to set a Burn Engine variables or populate View messages. I currently do not use a wxl with my bundle projects, and handle all of the bundle localization in the mba resource tables. (I use wxl files with my MSI projects which are compiled and shipped for eight cultures. This is mainly used to translate Action Texts, the Down-version message, and shortcut or service descriptions.) The approach you have taken is interesting, but I cannot provide specific advice on that issue. If I was going to develop a WixStdBA for multiple cultures: 1) I would first use the wxl files in the bundle project, which I recall was effective back when I was using wix 3.8 and WixStdBA. 2) If I needed to, I think that I would add resource string tables to the bafunctions.dll and use those resources to set an engine variable. As I think I indicated in an earlier post, I don't know what the ramifications are of trying to change the WixBundleName at run time. Good luck. WiX rocks! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/how-to-define-a-custom-variable-in-bundle-wxs-and-get-its-value-in-BAFunctions-dll-tp7599844p7599986.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
