....and the problem was... I was only testing the checkbox after installing then doing a "change" install. so the "Not Installed" was stopping it from working.
Thanks for your help everyone, I knew it had to be simple Simon -----Original Message----- From: Simon Topley [mailto:simon.top...@mwhsoft.com] Sent: 26 January 2011 12:00 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature condition evaluation I've gone down the repeated component ref's route and I'm happy with how it works, it ref counts it correctly so it only removes the component once the last feature that uses it has gone. The XML looks a bit messy but it works exactly how I want it too. All I need to get to work now is this checkbox, which seems to ignore the components install or action state. More new as it comes. Simon -----Original Message----- From: maksim.vazhe...@emc.com [mailto:maksim.vazhe...@emc.com] Sent: 26 January 2011 11:49 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature condition evaluation Maybe you should hide the feature "C" from user, and in the InstallExecuteSequence run a custom action to change the state of the feature "C" (it can be made with MsiSetFeatureState function) according to the install states of other features (you can get feature state with MsiGetFeatureState function). Or you can make a 'Root' feature, your 5 features will be its children, and 'C' feature also will be a child of 'Root' with attribute 'msidbFeatureAttributesFollowParent' (the state of 'C' will be the same as 'Root', and 'Root' will be installed if any of 5 features will be installed). But in this case you will need to show 'Root' feature to user. Maksim -----Original Message----- From: Simon Topley [mailto:simon.top...@mwhsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:15 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature condition evaluation I think I'll have to ditch the feature altogether and just repeat the components refs in all of the features that require it :( then I can just check the install state of the component to show or hide my checkbox on the exit dialog like this: <Control Id="LaunchCheckBox" Type="CheckBox" X="10" Y="243" Width="170" Height="17" Property="LAUNCHAPPONEXIT" Hidden="yes" CheckBoxValue="1" Text="Launch Configuration Tool."> <Condition Action="show">NOT Installed AND ?cConfigT>2</Condition> </Control> although I'm sure it won't work.. I'll try it. -----Original Message----- From: Simon Topley [mailto:simon.top...@mwhsoft.com] Sent: 26 January 2011 10:14 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature condition evaluation Thanks Blair, you are correct, I attempted to use feature ref's and ran into a number of issues, but I think it's time I revisited it. The biggest issue I ran into is that feature "C" needs to be installed if 1 of 5 other features is installed, I guess I've over simplified my explanation of the problem. So it needs to be a child feature of all of them, which threw a lot of issues at me. I think I'll have another crack at it though as it is the only alternative other than to just put the work onto the user so they decide when the feature should or shouldn't be included. Then I'll move onto trying to figure out why my checkbox on the exit dialog never reacts correctly to this property I managed to set. Simon -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: 25 January 2011 08:21 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature condition evaluation Feature selection works like/is sequenced like this: In CostFinalize, if none of the following properties are set, then the Feature table is used to determine which features will be installed (in conjunction with the both the INSTALLLEVEL property and the Condition table). If any of the following properties are set, the Condition table is ignored (meaning Feature Conditions are ignored) and only the following properties (along with the Level column, unmodified by the Condition table) are used (once again, by CostFinalize): Preselected ADDLOCAL REMOVE ADDSOURCE ADDDEFAULT REINSTALL ADVERTISE COMPADDLOCAL COMPADDSOURCE COMPADDDEFAULT FILEADDLOCAL FILEADDSOURCE FILEADDDEFAULT After CostFinalize, you can use APIs that change Feature action states (or, in the UI sequence, events that do the same), but those APIs have to then be called via Custom Actions (or UI events) If UI is run, then some of the above properties will be set by the UI sequence for the Execute sequence, thus invoking the above mentioned limitations in that latter sequence. If you are using both UI and Execute sequences, you can set a property post-CostFinalize in the UI sequence that you use pre-CostInitialize in the Execute sequence to append your feature onto the ADDLOCAL property. However, since there are no guarantees that the UI sequence will ever be run, that probably will never be a satisfactory guarantee. Honestly, a parent-child relationship between the features is the only reliable way to do what you need. I also honestly don't understand your comment: "I want C to be installed only with B but it can't be a child feature as it is in another file and used by other installers." What does it matter if it is a child feature in this one product? Features are a per-product concept, and Feature C in Product X and Feature C in Product Y are as equivalent as the town of Moscow in the state of Idaho of the United States is the same as the city of Moscow in the nation of Russia. In your case they may happen to have all the same components, but from the point of view of Windows Installer, that is a mere coincidence, and there is no more meaning than that (unless you explicitly set MigrateFeatureStates because the products share UpgradeCodes, but you turn that on row-by-row in the Upgrade table). In other words, you can do this: <Feature Id="B"><FeatureRef Id="C"/></Feature> and that will not effect in the least the usage of Feature C in your other unrelated product (except for the fact that you will likely be sharing Feature C's components, which from your explanations I understand to be your intent). -Blair -----Original Message----- From: Simon Topley [mailto:simon.top...@mwhsoft.com] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 4:47 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Feature condition evaluation Afternoon all, SO I'm back trying to tackle this issue with my SetProperty after Costfinalize. The property is set correctly, but nothing now seems to respond to it. MSI (s) (3C:98) [04:37:53:630]: Doing action: SetCONFIGREQUIRED Action 04:37:53: SetCONFIGREQUIRED. Action start 04:37:53: SetCONFIGREQUIRED. MSI (s) (3C:98) [04:37:53:630]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding CONFIGREQUIRED property. Its value is '1'. Action ended 04:37:53: SetCONFIGREQUIRED. Return value 1. MSI (s) (3C:98) [04:37:53:645]: Doing action: InstallValidate Action 04:37:53: InstallValidate. Validating install Action start 04:37:53: InstallValidate. MSI (s) (3C:98) [04:37:53:645]: Feature: feConfig; Installed: Local; Request: Null; Action: Null the feConfig is dependent on the property CONFIGREQUIRED: <Feature Id='feConfig' Title='Config tool x86' Display="hidden" Level='1'> <ComponentRef Id='cConfigT' /> <ComponentRef Id='cProgramMenuDirINMCleanup' /> <Condition Level="0"><![CDATA[NOT CONFIGREQUIRED]]]></Condition> </Feature> but as you can see the log shows that the requested action for the feature is null. 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