Blue Text in an InstallShield Dialog

[lasiewicz]

I have a customer that wanted really customized dialogs. They wanted the installshield branding removed, and all kinds of crazy things.

This was all easy except for one thing, changing the font color on a dialog.

They want blue text for the link buttons. Is there anyway to do that or clever hack someone has?

[lasiewicz]

Oh I did find you can do this if you have MSI 5 or better which is only available for windows 7.

So that won't help.


Create a static text control
Set its text in HTML format: like this:
www.google.com
where the href parameter specifies the URL and the text between the opening and the closing tag is what gets displayed.
Go to Direct Editor and select the table named Control.
Find your text control and change the Type from Text to Hyperlink.

I know about this, but was looking for at least blue text in less normal windows installer support. 3.1 and above

[SherylSikora]

I know that you can use the TextStyle table to change the color of Text controls. I'm not sure if you will be able to change the color on all types of controls though. You can use the Direct Editor in the InstallShield IDE to access the TextStyle table. I was able to successfully change color, font, and font size of text controls using this table.

See Microsoft help on this table:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372074%28VS.85%29.aspx

[lasiewicz]

Thanks I tried this too.

This works great for labels, but doesn't work for buttons.

Problem is can't have a label that is clickable.