Question: Localized progress action messages.

[GilesBathgate]

In the legacy wix based installer we used the following in our .wxl file:

  <String Id="ProgressTextInstallValidate" Overridable="yes">Validating install</String>
  <String Id="ProgressTextInstallFiles" Overridable="yes">Copying new files</String>
  <String Id="ProgressTextInstallFilesTemplate" Overridable="yes">File: [1],  Directory: [9],  Size: [6]</String>
...

Despite adding this to the wixsharp project, the action messages don't seem to be translated. project.LocalizationFile = "en-us.wxl";

Is it still possible to use this mechanisim?

[GilesBathgate]

We just had to update ProgressDialog.ProcessMessage to do:

//messageRecord[0] - is reserved for FormatString value
var message = messageRecord[2].ToString();

if (message.IsNotEmpty())
    CurrentAction.Text = message;

[GilesBathgate]

Resolved using the above.

[GilesBathgate]

It would appear that:

• messageRecord[0] - is reserved for FormatString value
• messageRecord[1] - contains the untranslated id
• messageRecord[2] - contains the message as translated in the wxl file.

[oleg-shilo]

Wow, very unusual convention.

Interesting how it handles the case when there are two formatting args:

messageRecord[0] - is reserved for FormatString value
messageRecord[1] - raw text arg1
messageRecord[2] - translated text arg1
messageRecord[3] - raw text arg2
messageRecord[4] - translated text arg2

or

messageRecord[0] - is reserved for FormatString value
messageRecord[1] - raw text arg1
messageRecord[2] - raw text arg2
messageRecord[3] - translated text arg1
messageRecord[4] - translated text arg2

[oleg-shilo]

It's really strange but it seems like messageRecird[2] unconditionally contains the string to display

messageRecord[0]    "Action 23:14:50: [1]. [2]" 
messageRecord[1]    "InstallFiles"  
messageRecord[2]    "Copying new files" 
messageRecord[3]    "File: [1],  Directory: [9],  Size: [6]"    
or 
messageRecord[0]    "Action 23:15:21: [1]. [2]" 
messageRecord[1]    "RegisterUser"  
messageRecord[2]    "Registering user"  
messageRecord[3]    "[1]"   

Meaning that your work around is exactly the fix that is needed.

Reopening this issue...

[oleg-shilo]

Can you elaborate?

[GilesBathgate]

Is it the case that the values in the format strings are the indexes of the records to replace them with e.g:

messageRecord[0]    "Action 23:15:21: [1]. [2]" 
messageRecord[1]    "RegisterUser"  
messageRecord[2]    "Registering user"  
messageRecord[3]    "[1]" 

becomes:

messageRecord[0]  =>  "Action 23:15:21: RegisterUser. Registering user" 
messageRecord[3]   =>  "RegisterUser"

[oleg-shilo]

I also thought about that:

wixsharp/Source/src/WixSharp.UI/ManagedUI/Forms/ProgressDialog.cs

Lines 126 to 133 in 9b752b7

	message = messageRecord.FormatString;
	if (message.IsNotEmpty())
	{
	for (int i = 1; i < messageRecord.FieldCount; i++)
	{
	message = message.Replace("[" + i + "]", messageRecord[i].ToString());
	}
	}

But it was a bit weird to display formatted rec[0] in on the dialog. So I opted to rec[2].

[GilesBathgate]

Yes I was thinking rather for the description message in the new MessageDialog feature #692