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Wix Formatted File Identifier Average ratng: 4,1/5 1440 votesThis variable allows you to override the Id of the element in the WiX template. Patch files understood by the CPack WiX generator roughly follow this.
Wix.com is a leading cloud-based development platform with millions of users worldwide. We make it easy for everyone to create a beautiful, professional web presence. AssemblyApplication, String, Specifies the file identifier of the application file. This assembly will be isolated to the same directory as the application file.
Extra Actions. There are many other. Refer to it using the Id identifier of the File tag specifying the file. The Value attribute can be a formatted string.I am trying to edit an XML file with Wix. I am using the WixUtilExtension bundled with Wix 3.7.
The xml file is a settings file created in Visual Studio 2010 for a C# application. In this file, I am using an element which is used to store multiple string values in an array. This is the content of the unaltered settings file: I want to add elements to the element in this file.
One way to do this is by using an element from the wix/UtilExtension namespace. I have added this element to the component which holds the config file like this: This results in the addition of one element to the element.To add another element to the settings file, another XmlConfig element has to be added to the element of the setup project with a different Id attribute and a higher value for the Sequence attribute like this: After installation of the msi, the element in the settings file looks like this: My valueMy second value I have found out that it is possible to set the Value attribute of an attribute to the value of a property like this: This is good. I would like the user to be able to add multiple values in the installation process dynamically so that a variable amount of elements can be added to the settings file. My first approach was to use a statement like this: There are a few problems with this approach. The foreach statement uses a preprocessor variable which cannot be set to the value of a property. The value of the Sequence attribute stays the same. I would like the user to store the values for the string elements in a Property which separates the values by semicolons and then parse them in a foreach statement like this: This throws the following error: The util:XmlConfig/@Id attribute's value, 'StringVALUES', is not a legal identifier.Identifiers may contain ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, digits, underscores, or periods (.).
Every identifier must begin with either a letter or an underscore. Is there any way I can create a variable amount of elements with the XmlFile or the XmlConfig element? Is the only solution to this problem a CustomAction?As an addition to BdN3504's answer. Instead of the whole thing. I would suggest the use of This ensures that the XmlConfig table is included in the output MSI, even if it is empty.
(I would have just put this as a comment. But I don't have the reputation apparently). Yes, this is possible but if you want to have this determined at install time then the preprocessor is not an option. The preprocessor executes during the build process. Find Formatted Files File Type IdentifierTo get what you want, you'll need to write another custom action that takes the arbitrarily long set of user data and adds temporary rows to the XmlConfig table. The WcaAddTempRecord function in src ca wcautil wcawrap.cpp can do the work.
The src ca wixca dll RemoveFoldersEx.cpp is a pretty good example of using WcaAddTempRecord to add rows to the RemoveFile table. You'll want to do similarly.
filename
— Name of file to open
character vector or string scalar
Name of the file to open, including the file extension, specifiedas a character row vector or a string scalar. If the file is not inthe current folder,
filename
must include a fullor a relative path. On UNIX® systems, if
filename
beginswith '~/'
or '~username
/'
,the fopen
function expands the path to the currentor specified user's home directory, respectively.- If you open a file with read access and the file isnot in the current folder, then
fopen
searchesalong the MATLAB search path. - If you open a file with write or append access andthe file is not in the current folder, then
fopen
createsa file in the current directory.
Example:
'myFile.txt'
Data Types:
char
| string
permission
— File access type
'r'
(default) | 'w'
| 'a'
| 'r+'
| 'w+'
| 'a+'
| 'A'
| 'W'
| ...
File access type, specified as a character vector or a stringscalar. You can open a file in binary mode or in text mode. On UNIX systems,both translation modes have the same effect. To open a file in binarymode, specify one of the following.
'r' | Open file for reading. |
'w' | Open or create new file for writing. Discard existingcontents, if any. |
'a' | Open or create new file for writing. Append data to theend of the file. |
'r+' | Open file for reading and writing. |
'w+' | Open or create new file for reading and writing. Discardexisting contents, if any. |
'a+' | Open or create new file for reading and writing. Appenddata to the end of the file. |
'A' | Open file for appending without automatic flushing ofthe current output buffer. |
'W' | Open file for writing without automatic flushing of thecurrent output buffer. |
To open files in text mode, attach the letter
't'
tothe permission
argument, such as 'rt'
or 'wt+'
. On Windows® systems, in text mode:
- Read operations that encounter a carriage return followedby a newline character (
'rn'
) remove the carriagereturn from the input. - Write operations insert a carriage return before anynewline character in the output.
Open or create a new file in text mode if you want to writeto it in MATLAB and then open it in Microsoft® Notepad, orany text editor that does not recognize
'n'
asa newline sequence. When writing to the file, end each line with 'rn'
.For an example, see fprintf
.Otherwise, open files in binary mode for better performance. To read and write to the same file:
- Open the file with a value for
permission
thatincludes a plus sign,'+'
. - Call
fseek
orfrewind
betweenread and write operations. For example, do not callfread
followedbyfwrite
, orfwrite
followedbyfread
, unless you callfseek
orfrewind
betweenthem.
Data Types:
char
| string
machinefmt
— Order for reading or writing bytes or bits
'n'
(default) | 'b'
| 'l'
| 's'
| 'a'
| ...
Order for reading or writing bytes or bits in the file, specifiedas one of the following character vectors or string scalars.
'n' or 'native' | Your system byte ordering (default) |
'b' or 'ieee-be' | Big-endian ordering |
'l' or 'ieee-le' | Little-endian ordering |
's' or 'ieee-be.l64' | Big-endian ordering, 64-bit long data type |
'a' or 'ieee-le.l64' | Little-endian ordering, 64-bit long data type |
By default, all currently supportedplatforms use little-endian ordering for new files. Existing binaryfiles can use either big-endian or little-endian ordering.
Data Types:
char
| string
encodingIn
— Character encoding
'UTF-8'
| 'ISO-8859-1'
| 'windows-1251'
| 'windows-1252'
| ...
Character encoding to use for subsequent read and write operations, including
fscanf
, fprintf
, fgetl
, fgets
, fread
, and fwrite
, specified as a character vector or a string scalar. The character vector or string scalar must contain a standard character encoding scheme name such as the following.'Big5' | 'ISO-8859-1' | 'windows-874' |
'Big5-HKSCS' | 'ISO-8859-2' | 'windows-949' |
'CP949' | 'ISO-8859-3' | 'windows-1250' |
'EUC-KR' | 'ISO-8859-4' | 'windows-1251' |
'EUC-JP' | 'ISO-8859-5' | 'windows-1252' |
'EUC-TW' | 'ISO-8859-6' | 'windows-1253' |
'GB18030' | 'ISO-8859-7' | 'windows-1254' |
'GB2312' | 'ISO-8859-8' | 'windows-1255' |
'GBK' | 'ISO-8859-9' | 'windows-1256' |
'IBM866' | 'ISO-8859-11' | 'windows-1257' |
'KOI8-R' | 'ISO-8859-13' | 'windows-1258' |
'KOI8-U' | 'ISO-8859-15' | 'US-ASCII' |
'Macintosh' | 'UTF-8' | |
'Shift_JIS' |
If you do not specify an encoding scheme,
fopen
opens files for processing using the default encoding for your system. For more information, see Opening Files with Different Character Encodings.If you specify a value for encoding that is not in the list of supported values, MATLAB issues a warning. Specifying other encoding names sometimes (but not always) produces correct results.
Data Types:
char
| string
File identifier of an open file, specified as an integer.
Data Types:
double
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