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

[Rob Mensching]

The wixstdba does not support feature selection but Burn does.

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From: Kevin Mackey <kmackey at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 9:11 PM
To: Rob Mensching <rob at firegiant.com>
Cc: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] Transparent hyperlink control bug: white background on dark background

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<mailto:rob at firegiant.com>> wrote:
IIRC, Burn has always supported feature selection: MsiPackage/@EnableFeatureSelection

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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<mailto: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.
>
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> *To:* wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org<mailto: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<http://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...
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> 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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