[wix-users] Disk space

Elena Aralla elena.aralla at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 23:47:40 PDT 2018


Hello,

Thank you for your answer; this means that I can check after the
ConstFinalize and notify the user.

That’s what I wanted to know; I am also a beginner with Wix and any setup
program.

Thank you.

Il giorno ven 20 lug 2018 alle 23:13 Jason Beck via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> ha scritto:

> Have you experienced a time where this was an issue?
>
> Windows installer has actions that run (FileCost) inbetween the
> CostInitialize and CostFinalize actions which, if I understand it
> correctly, will estimate the size.
>
> It is your responsibility in the UI (assuming you’re doing a non silent
> install) to check these conditions if you create your own custom UI. You
> can look in the wix3 source on github to see how they handle it.
>
> Apologies if your question is more nuanced, I’m fairly new to WiX as well,
> so if you have further details, I’ll offer what (little) knowledge I have.
>
> Note that those cost actions are part of the Windows Installer and not
> something something specific to the WiX toolset.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 20, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Elena Aralla via wix-users <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > is there any way to check if there is enough disk space before a program
> is installed?
> >
> > It would be pleasant to warn a user that there is not enough space,
> after waiting for minutes for the end of the installation.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Elena.
> >
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