I am using IS 2008 Premier into deployment of my application, BASIC MSI project. I need a checkbox, used on a custom dialog, with a custom background, and the text seems to be displayed in gray. Could this be made? cause I tried, and did not seem to find a transparency property (as in labels) so that the text of the checkbox is not surrounded but a gray background? I used a label untill now, right next to the checkbox, but now I want to click on the text and enable/disable the checkbox, so the label is not very helpful.
Also, someone suggested to: "Can you use Windows API in MSI installers and subclass elements? If yes, you could create a callback WndProc to subclass the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message of the checkbox and return a transparent brush." but I DON'T think this is possible in a BASIC-MSI project. Please tell me if this is possible ..
I'm not aware of a simple way to handle this; I think we do what you described, use a check box with no text, and then line up a transparent label next to it. See SetupCompleteSuccess, for example.
