how to change the windows title

[tybuser]

Hi,
I am having problems changing the window title.
On preload, I call
Screen.SetLocalizedString("IDS_WINDOW_TITLE", "1234");

However,this does not change the windows title.
I need to change the windows title base on language. Any Suggestion?

I have also tried
handle = Application.GetWndHandle();
Window.SetText(handle, "111");
but this only change the title that appear in the taskbar, not the title in the UI

[Ulrich]

The title of screens is set via the "Window title" field on the Attributes tab. If you want to localize this caption, you would typically do this with a Session Variable.

Ulrich

[tybuser]

Do you have any sample code? thanks

[Ulrich]

Please check the documentation for full explanations and sample code.

Ulrich

[tybuser]

hi,

I tried to call it in the OnPreInstall but it is not working
SessionVar.Set("%WindowTitle%", "111");

I have also tried it on OnPreload of the welcome setup screen and it is still not working.

any advice

[tybuser]

Hi,

Ideally, I want to do something like
strSetupTitle = SetupData.GetLocalizedString("Msg");
SessionVar.Set("%WindowTitle%", "Msg");

so that I can change the window title

thanks

[goldc0der]

Same problem... i´m unable to change the Window Title!

[goldc0der]

Got it!

Place the following code into the On Preload event of your page:

-- Get the Application's WindowHandle
nWindowHandle = Application.GetWndHandle();
-- Get the Application's title
sTitle = Window.EnumerateTitles(false)[nWindowHandle];
-- Change the window's title bar
Window.SetText(nWindowHandle, "NEW TITLE HERE");

[Ulrich]

Clearly using the most complicated method possible must have some advantage, or else people would follow the documentation, or at least the instructions already given in this thread.

Ulrich

[tybuser]

Hi Ulrich, your method won't work if you are supporting multiple languages in a single installer.
Also, I am support simplified chinese (non-ascii) and Russian(non-ascii) in a single installer.
I can't edit the text directly from the screen properties as the text file tends to be corrupted due to the multiple language code.

So what I did is to read all the strings from individual lang file. It works for most of the content except the windows title

so in the preload event of all wndows, I will do something like that
-- These actions are performed before the screen is shown.
tblSysLang = System.GetDefaultLangID();
tblUserLang = Application.GetInstallLanguage();

local strHeader = SetupData.GetLocalizedString("RZMSG_WELCOME_HEADER ");
local strSubHeader = SetupData.GetLocalizedString("RZMSG_WELCOME_SUBHEA DER");
local strBody = SetupData.GetLocalizedString("RZMSG_WELCOME_TEXT") ;
Screen.SetLocalizedString("IDS_HEADER_TEXT", strHeader);
Screen.SetLocalizedString("IDS_SUBHEADER_TEXT", strSubHeader);
DlgStaticText.SetProperties(CTRL_STATICTEXT_BODY, {Text = strBody});



-- Get the Application's WindowHandle
nWindowHandle = Application.GetWndHandle();
-- Get the Application's title
sTitle = Window.EnumerateTitles(false)[nWindowHandle];
-- Change the window's title bar
Window.SetText(nWindowHandle, "NEW TITLE HERE");

The rest of the content is working except the window title.

Pls advise on how to solve this problem.

thanks