I created a WiX 3.5 setup with a custom license file by putting this into the .wxs file:
<WixVariable Id="WixUILicenseRtf" Value="License.rtf" />
This works perfectly and the link is displayed when I run the created .msi file.
(I'm using the WixUI_InstallDir Dialog Set)
Now I want to put a hyperlink into the license file.
I just put the link into the file by opening it in WordPad and pasting http://mylink.com (WordPad turns it into a hyperlink automatically).
When I compile that in WiX, the license agreement dialog shows the link like this:
<http://mylink.com>
I noticed that this seems to relate to WordPad creating a hyperlink automatically (see above).
When I remove the http:// part from the link in the license file, WordPad doesn't recognize it as a link anymore and in the compiled .msi file, the < and > in the license agreement dialog go away.
Any ideas how I can get rid of the additional < and >, except putting the link into the license file without the http:// part?
EDIT:
Okay, maybe I didn't think enough when I used the word "hyperlink".
What I actually meant was: It does not have to be an actual clickable hyperlink.
I just want the adress of my web page to be displayed at the top of the license file.
I'm perfectly fine if it's just the URL as text (not clickable), but I want it to be displayed as I entered it, and not with < >.
The problem is that WordPad automatically turns any URL into a hyperlink as soon as I enter it, so I have no idea how to get the license agreement dialog to treat it as normal text.
Windows Installer doesn't support hyperlinks in the scrollable text control. This is why the link is not displayed correctly. Even if it was, nothing would happen when you click it because Windows Installer doesn't handle this event.
A hyperlink in a scrollable text control works only if you use an external UI which handles it.
Edit:
If you just want to display some text as a link, the usual approach is make it blue and underlined. As you already noticed Windows Installer doesn't show conventional hyperlinks correctly.
If you want to show a link as normal text, simply open the RTF file with a normal text editor (for example notepad.exe) and remove the hyperlink markers. Just follow the normal text formatting and you will easily spot the markers you want to remove.
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I am pulling this attribute directly from Mozilla Firefox's about.xul file which shows the About dialog box for an add-on. It is a relatively simple XUL dialog with no inputs, locale data pulled from DTD entities, string bundle properties and JavaScript.
<!-- omni.ja!/chrome/toolkit/content/mozapps/extensions/about.xul -->
<!-- chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/about.xul -->
<dialog id="genericAbout"
xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
onload="init();"
buttons="accept"
buttoniconaccept="close"
onaccept="close();">
MDN: Dialogs and Prompts and MDN: dialog both mention something about attributes that are formed by concatenating (pseudo-regexp):
"button" + "(label|accesskey|oncommand)" + "(accept|cancel|disclosure|help|extra[12])"
For example: buttonlabelaccept.
However, I could not find any documentation about the use of icon. The word icon does not even show up on either of the above-mentioned pages! What does it do? What is the correct way to use it?
I'm trying to make my add-on about page more modular, without loading internal files from omni.ja(r), which pulls in a LOT of unnecessary code with it. I am developing a very streamlined version, that will style itself appropriately depending on calling context.
I want it to look like Firefox's official About < addon.name > dialog if called from about:addons context-menu, or from my add-on's status-bar context-menu. I want a slightly different appearance if viewed from within the Options dialog as an iframe inside a XUL. I already have that structure set up. Just tweaking the little quirks.
This is not critical design or feature wise, and indeed the entire API will go away in a few months, but it just bothers me to not really understand this, so I want to figure it out before I let it go an move on to more important things. But I will if I absolutely can't find an answer. But it's one of those stupid little things that will just bother me a disproportionate amount. =D
If you can point me to documentation I may have missed, or even specific Mozilla source code, and a few examples, or a more complete explanation and typical use-cases, that would be great.
If you check the "blame" for about.xul, you'll see that the line was added to fix bug 422763. Judging from the screenshot in the bug, GNOME (Linux) has (had?) a convention of putting icons on dialog buttons, and this attribute allows overriding the default icon (inferred from the button type).
If you search for buttonicon, you'll find the code that handles this attribute in toolkit/content/widgets/dialog.xml.
I'm putting together an installation using Processing, where users type and their text is printed on a receipt printer.
I've got Processing saving out time-stamped text files to a folder, and a folder action in Automator watching that folder and sending to print.
My problem is that these .txt files need some intervention...
Format > Wrap to page
Change margins
Select 80mm receipt roll in Page Setup
I think I have the margins thing figured out by adding some code to the file header on the Processing side. With the rest, I'm drawing a complete blank.
I've tried setting the receipt roll as the default page size in 'Print and scan' in system prefs, but the receipt page size doesn't show in the list in system prefs, only shows on the page size list from within Text Edit application.
I suppose what I'm asking - is there a way of setting TextEdit's default to page wrap, certain page size, certain printer - then a folder action can just print away (I hope).
The idea is that these text files spit out of the receipt printer automatically with no intervention. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Have you experimented with the settings available for TextEdit in AppleScript? If you look under the print settings section (in TextEdit's Script dictionary), there are a number of options available, which may help you achieve something pretty close to what you want. You could then drop the AppleScript into a Run AppleScript action in your Automator folder action.
Alternatively, you could go completely nuts and design a template in Pages that meets your criteria, and then extract your text, paste into your Pages template, and print that out. A whole lot more work, but once it became functional, you would only need to change the Pages template in the future to meet changing needs.
I need to create a Word document that includes information I also have on a web page. Ideally, I want to prevent duplicating the information, so would like to put the URL of the web page, and have Word "expand" the URL into the actual text from the web page.
If the Word file is opened offline, then the reader sees the contents of the web page as they were when the word file was created.
IF the Word file is opened online, than attempt to update the contents with those that are on the web page.
Sure its possible, but I think you'd need to write and install a VSTO AddIn (or possibly a macro) to do it.
How do I view my Code output in Notepad++ as a webpage or something similiar?
I have built something but I can't find a button or something like that in Notepad to view it as a webpage or something similiar.
If it is a webpage written in html:
just go where you saved it and click it.
If it is in php:
You will need a web server, save the file in the www directory. and access it like this:
http://localhost/yourfile.php
Simply, save your file with the correct extension in this case html, then click run , in the run menu click launch in, (in whichever is your browser) in my case, chrome.And it should work(:
Add this plugin in Notepad++: Preview HTML but it opens only in IE
To setup Notepad++ for testing your markup or code there are a few things to consider.
When Notepad++ launches do you want a test document opened by default?
What language do you prefer the document to be opened as?
What browser do you wish to test your test file in?
Do we want a shortcut to open test in browser?
If you do not have your local environment setup to run server-side scripts you will be limited to what the browser supports.
In my example setup I will be using .php as my language. There are some variables, but I've chosen what I believe best suit my needs. I'm also using a windows machine.
Create a new file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ (or wherever) as php.php (or whatever). This will be the document we keep open and will remain open so long as we never close it.
In Notepad++ go to Settings > Preferences > New Document
In the bottom left there is a drop-down. Select your language (php in my case).
Open php.php in Notepad++.
Go to Run > Modify Shortcut / Delete Command and locate your desired browser (note: this may not work as expected in some browsers i.e. Internet Explorer, go figure).
Create a custom shortcut so your document can be launched to test (unless you are happy with what is already setup).
This will effectively keep your default file open in Notepad++ every time it is launched in your preferred language and allow you to quickly test your markup.
Cntrl + Alt + Shift + I(Alphabet if you want to open in Internet explorer)
I hope this will work.
We are doing webdevelopment with Zope.
The web-editor is just horrible. No syntax highlighting, no in-text-tabs, nothing you can work with.
I installed Zope External Editor. It is now possible that I click the "use external editor" button on every element and it creates a temporary file and opens it in Notepad++, awesome.
But one important thing fail: it doesn't save back to Zope when I save the file. I still have to copy the code back to Zope manually.
I also searched for syntax highlighting extension for chrome/firefox at least to highlight the code (but I prefer Notepad++ with upload-on-save).
Can someone help me with that?
Did you also download the ExternalEditor Helper application?
Your browser should open the helper application, which will then open the editor (which you can specify in the configuration, see last point below). This is important because the helper application is responsible for sending changes back to Zope, which it does by keeping an open WebDAV session while you are editing.
You should download the latest helper app here: http://plone.org/products/zope-externaleditor-client
From that page:
Under Windows: Install the windows binary executable.
Open your page in your web browser and click on the link 'edit with external application'
Associate the file with Zope External Editor and make it permanent (first time only)
The file is opened in the editor defined in windows registry with certain editors, a message will ask whether the edition is terminated or not;
keep it until you closed you file and say yes.
If you want to change your default editor for certain content types , or if you want to add proxy parameters, open Zope External Edit in your program files menu and change your local user configuration.
The best option is to not develop Zope applications through-the-web anymore.
Use proper python packages, and you'll get to use your favourite tools without difficult integration with the server.