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Mike Fuchs
Mike Fuchs

Reputation: 12319

WiX/Msi textbox border covered up by background image if text is too long

I have an edit control on my custom dialog, that defaults to a session property SERVICE_URL.

<Control Id="serviceUrlTextBox" Type="Edit" X="135" Y="45" Height="17" Width="215" Property="SERVICE_URL" />

If the text fits the textbox, everything looks alright, if the text is too long however, the border goes missing. If the user adds/removes text (once the dialog is shown), that doesn't change the appearance, only the initial length has an effect. Using Multiline="yes" does not help, the text is never wrapped and there is no border either.

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How can I keep the border even if the text is too long? I'm using WiX Toolset v3.8.

EDIT: The background plays a role, as Buzka suggested (notice the background "crowding in" when the text is too long). Clearly a bug. Any ideas how I can get it to work short of removing the background?

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That's how I have created the different background:

<Binary Id="dialogBackground" SourceFile="Resources\WixUIDialogBackground.png"/>
<Control Id="background" Type="Bitmap" Text="dialogBackground" Width="370" Height="243" X="0" Y="53" TabSkip="no"  />
<Control Id="explanationLabel" X="135" Y="23" NoWrap="no" RightAligned="no" Transparent="yes" Type="Text" Width="215" Height="100" Text="Please provide the URL of the SettingsService. If you prefer, you may change it at a later stage in the Settings." />
<Control Id="serviceUrlTextBox" Type="Edit" X="135" Y="45" Height="17" Width="215" Property="SERVICE_URL" />

Upvotes: 0

Views: 869

Answers (1)

Buzka91
Buzka91

Reputation: 399

I'm using v3.8 too, don't have that problem in my installer. I can see you use custom background color, maybe thats reason?

@Edit

I mean maybe you should set custom border to textbox too? Or try with default backgroud color.

@Edit

After LOOOOONG searching... i found something like this:

Unfortunately, that's how MSI draws it. There's no concept of a custom control in MSI UI, so there's nothing WiX can do to fix it.

So i think my answer was good, no chances to change it, cause it's not supported.

Upvotes: 1

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