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Customizing text in standard Wix dialogs

I use standard Wix dialogs. How to customize the text of displayed messages?

For example, on the "License Agreement" page, I want to change the text "I accept the terms of the license agreement" to "I acknowledge and agree to the terms of the above agreement."

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Here is how I did it:

  • Add a new localization file to my Votive project (for example, Visual Studio Wix project) - right-click, Add → New Item ... → Wix localization file
  • Since I set up the English text, I made sure that the Culture attribute in the file is specified by en-US

  • Added String elements for each element that I wanted to customize. For example.

    <WixLocalization Culture="en-us" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/localization"> <String Id="WelcomeEulaDlgLicenseAcceptedCheckBox">I accept the terms of the above Agreement</String> </WixLocalization>

  • To identify the line identifiers that I need to override, I looked at the WixUI_en-us.wxl file from the Wix source code. In some cases it was useful to refer to the source code of the individual dialogs to find which lines were used there.

  • One final note: when you add a localization file to your project, Wix starts outputting msi files in subfolders named for the culture in the localization file. For example. mine were written to \ bin \ Debug \ en-us, not \ bin \ Debug \
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Chapter Advanced WiX Themes → Wix UI Dialog Library → Configuring the WixUI Embedded Dialog Sets in the WiX documentation (wix.chm) contains all the information about customizing user interface dialogs, including text. There is also a topic on customizing the user interface in the WiX tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/ .

If you find that you need to override more WiX default settings, the best way to get started is to download sources (e.g. from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.5.1030.0/wix35-sources.zip ): all user dialogs The interfaces are located in the src \ ext \ UIExtension \ wixlib file and will give you an idea of ​​how this works.

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