[wix-users] Transparent hyperlink control bug: white background on dark background

[Kevin Mackey]

This is one of the feature selection messages I saw:

"The wix standard bootsrapper application does not currently support msi
feature selection."

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22508608/how-to-modify-the-installed-features-of-msi-with-wix-bootstrapper

That was in reference to modify after install.

--Kevin

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 8:37 PM Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com> wrote:

> IIRC, Burn has always supported feature selection:
> MsiPackage/@EnableFeatureSelection
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> Kevin Mackey via wix-users
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 3:48 PM
> To: Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com>
> Cc: Kevin Mackey <kmackey at gmail.com>; WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <
> wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Transparent hyperlink control bug: white
> background on dark background
>
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion of using a bootstrapper. I have a simple one I
> use. I would prefer to use Burn but didn't since Burn (still?) didn't allow
> feature selection, which is an important part of the MSI installer. Looks
> like I need to add a WPF UI to my soon-to-be-no-longer-simple bootstrapper
> to properly support hyperlinks and provide feature selection.
>
> I will need to convince some people that the WPF UI will give us much more
> flexibility.
>
> --Kevin
>
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 7:47 AM Christopher Painter <chrpai at iswix.com>
> wrote:
>
> > MSI native UI has some wonky behaviors and I don't know how many of
> > them I even remember anymore.  Many people have moved onto
> > bootstrapper based UI where you can do thinks like WPF MVVM UI  and
> > get as  fancy as DirectX based APIs allow.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf
> > of Kevin Mackey via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 18, 2018 5:07 PM
> > *To:* wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> > *Cc:* Kevin Mackey
> > *Subject:* [wix-users] Transparent hyperlink control bug: white
> > background on dark background
> >
> > When using a transparent hyperlink control on a dark background the
> > control has a white background.
> >
> > See this for an example and more details:
> > https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5907
> > <https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5907>
> > Installer transparent hyperlink control shows white background on dark
> > dialog background · Issue #5907 · wixtoolset/issues
> > <https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/5907>
> > github.com
> > Bugs Which version of WiX are you building with? 3.11.1.2318 Which
> > version of Visual Studio are you building with (if any)? 2013 Pro
> > 12.0.40629.00 Update 5 Which version of the WiX Toolset Visual S...
> >
> >
> >
> > I would like to know if there is a workaround other than using bitmap
> > buttons (which can have display problems like outlines or white
> > borders on some systems when the bitmap isn’t scaled correctly), or
> > putting hyperlinks at the bottom of the dialog with the Back, Next,
> > and Cancel buttons where the background is lighter.
> > Thanks,
> > --Kevin
> >
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