Adding Binary Resources; Refreshing Binary Resources - Symantec WINDOWS INSTALLER EDITOR 8.0 Reference

Adding Binary Resources

Refreshing Binary Resources

Windows Installer Editor Reference
To edit a selected source file, click Edit at the right of the page. The file opens in an
appropriate application or you are prompted to select an application. Make the
changes and save the file.
To copy binary data into a new source file, click Save As at the right of the page. You
might do this to extract a file stored in an .MSI (with an <Unspecified> file name) to
your disk.
Note
If you have saved a resource with an unspecified source file to a new file, don't save
the installation until you verify that you selected the appropriate file extension. To
do this, select the resource on the Resources page and click the Edit button at the
right of the page. The file should open in an appropriate application. If it doesn't,
select Edit menu > Reset Page and save the resource again, using a different
extension.
When you use the Resources page to add binary resources to an installation, Windows
Installer Editor adds the appropriate rows to the Binary table.
Select Installation Expert > Resources page, click Add at the right of the page, and
complete the Resource Details dialog box:
Name
Enter a descriptive name for the data you're adding. This name appears on the
Resources page and in the Binary table. If you leave this blank, the name of the
source file is used instead.
File Name
Specify the file that contains the binary data.
Create/update link to refresh data when file changes
Mark this to update the data during compile with any modification you might have
made to the source file. This also marks the check box in the Refresh column on the
Resources page.
See Refreshing Binary Resources
This check box is unavailable if you have selected a resource with an unspecified file
name.
Note
You can create or remove this link later, by marking or clearing the check box in the
Refresh column on the Resources page.
See also:
Managing Binary Resources
When you mark a binary resource to be refreshed, you create a link between the binary
data in the installation and its source file. As a result, each time you compile, the binary
data is updated with any changes you might have made to the source file. In a project
file (.WSI), the source file for a binary resource marked to be refreshed stays outside
the project file, and therefore does not increase the size of the .WSI.
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