Edit Box not showing up on Windows 7

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I have downloaded the newest version of Wix Toolset and have made a custom dialog to get the connection string for the database from the user. When I test run the Msi on a Windows 7 machine, the dialog box is there as well as my display text, but the edit control is not showing up. If I click on where it is supposed to be, I get a cursor and if I start typing then the white background on the textbox shows up. Is this a bug?

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Can you show the code for your dialog? And does it show up on previous Windows versions as expected? – Alexey Ivanov
Please check that the other controls are not overriding edit box. Reduce the size of text box and then test – Sunil Agarwal

2 Answers

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Almost certainly this is a Z-order problem where another control is overlapping with the control you want. First, ensure your controls don't overlap. Then, order them in the Dialog element such that the highest z-order are last (IIRC).

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I had a similar issue where the edit boxes were "invisible" until I clicked on them. After examining the code, I realized that my controls were being "painted over" by my dialog bitmap. I made the bitmap code the first line in the dialog and this fixed the problem as the controls got "painted over" the bitmap.