RE: [WiX-users] Feature size on customize dlg

[Bob A. <sf...@bo...>]

> When I select a parent feature in a feature tree, and it displays the
> disk space required for that feature, should I be expecting that it
> reports the selected feature disk usage to be 0kb, with subfeatures
> requiring <x> kb (where x is non-zero)? That seems a little
> unintuitive to me - I would expect the size of the feature to be the
> sum of the size of all of its children.
> 
> I'm seeing this in the "Customize" dialog from the WiX tutorial.

A feature's size is the size of its components; its subfeatures aren't
counted. There's a separate figure that counts up the subfeatures. For
details, see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/s
electionsize_controlevent.asp

and 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/s
electiontree_control.asp.

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