Z-index issue of controls in WIXUI (overlapping issue)
I am trying to create a dialog box for licensed aggregation and other dialog boxes.
Now if I set an image (.jpg / .bmp) in the background of my dialog box, the checkbox disappears and it won't be visible until I hover over it. And the same problem occurs when the button is pressed.
*) At first I thought it might be because of the large image size, but I also tried with smaller images and the problem existed with them too.
*) I also tried changing the z-index of the controls, but that still didn't solve my problem.
Where is the problem?. Where am I going wrong?
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Look at the dialogs included in the UI extension, you should examine similar dialogs and go back to figure out what's going on. There's a background bitmap in the welcome dialog for example.
http://wix.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wix/wix/src/ext/UIExtension/wixlib/
Edit: In response to a comment about installing Office 2007, Office uses a frontend rather than built-in content provided by Windows Installer. The setup is done on WiX, but not in the UI - more than 20 MSI files on the Office 2007 Ultimate disc, the front-end UI hides it all from you so it appears as a single installation package when in reality it's actually more complicated.
Edit 2: See http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2005/07/23/442584.aspx for a good starting point when implementing a non-native Windows Installer UI
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