[WiX-users] FW: Background color (and other settings) for a Dialog

[John Lemire]

Have you had success with this approach? I've never been able to get the background bitmap to stay behind all the other controls once users started clicking around in the dialog. It always seems that eventually one or more of them gets z-ordered behind the bitmap and disappears on me...

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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Background color (and other settings) for a Dialog


Adrian Alonso wrote:

How can I set the background color (and other settings) for a Dialog?


Dialogs get their background color from Windows. If you want to change it, the easiest way is to use a bitmap that covers the entire dialog.


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[Bob Arnson]

Post by John Lemire
Have you had success with this approach? I've never been able to get
the background bitmap to stay behind all the other controls once users
started clicking around in the dialog. It always seems that
eventually one or more of them gets z-ordered behind the bitmap and
disappears on me...

I haven't had z-order problems like that, but by design, MSI controls
all use the standard Windows theme colors. AFAIK, skinning MSI dialogs
requires subclassing. At some point, it's going to be easier to develop
an external UI handler...