Dynamic values in project summary

Bar_BQ · Post by **Bar_BQ** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:31 am

Hi,

I wonder wether it is possible to dynamically change project summary information. For example, I'd like to put program version into subject field. Is it possible?

Thanks,
BarBQ

bokkie · Post by **bokkie** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:48 am

BarBQ,

I'm guessing you can't change it dynamically but that's only a moderate guess. I loaded a test project msi in Orca but could not find my subject in the internal msi tables. If I load the msi into a binary editor I can find my subject which makes me think it gets hard-wired into the bootstrapper when the project is built? I can't find anything in the help information and neither can I see any reference to the subject used in any of the standard dialogs. I can't find any variable in the msiCode either so that sort of makes me think it can't be changed dynamically, only edited statically.

MichaelNesmith · Post by **MichaelNesmith** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:30 pm

That's right - this is "burned in" to the MSI file, but you can probably still use compiler variables for build time customization.

Bar_BQ · Post by **Bar_BQ** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:55 am

that's what I suspected...

thanks for your response guys!