2. Costing is altered via the actions triggered using the dialogs (if a feature
is added, it is costed at that point, features removed have their non-shared
costs subtracted from the CostFinalize results).
1. The FileCost action walks the component and file tables and computes the
costs related to the files of each component. CostFinalize then finishes the
costing calculations of each component (adding the costs of all non File table
resources in each component) and each feature (basically adding up all
components within each feature, taking into account components that are shared
across features), taking into account conditions on each (in other words,
ignoring those features/components not selected).
Custom actions are not costed at that point, their costs are not assessed until
the actions themselves are written into the script. That is yet another reason
that Windows Installer's progress bars are so "wonky".
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 23:46:07 -0700
> From: kirann.he...@gmail.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [WiX-users] Difference between FileCost and CostFinalize actions
>
> Hello Install gurus,
>
> Could anyone tell me the difference between FileCost and CostFinalize
> actions in the windows installer sequence tables?
> The description in the MSDN tables is not very clear.
>
> Also the dialogs are displayed after the CostFinalize action.
> Does this mean that the costing process takes place again ,depending upon
> what the user chooses in the Feature tree?
>
> Thanks,
> Kiran Hegde
>
>
>
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