Question

I’m trying to add a MaskedEdit (for a serial) control to a Wix project I have. I have the following added:

<Property Id="PIDTemplate">
  <![CDATA[?????-?????-?????-?????-?????-?????]]>
</Property>
<Control Id="Edit" Type="MaskedEdit" X="97" Y="141" Width="191" Height="17" Property="SERIALNUMBER" Text="[PIDTemplate]" TabSkip="no" />

Which allows me to have a Alphabetical/Numerial key. The only problem is, when I paste a key into the first field (either the fill key, or hyphen seperated), it only pastes the first field and not the rest. Do I need to do my own handling for this to work?

Also the control is not opaque. Any ideas how to fix this? (Transparent is only available on Text controls).

Answer 1

These are constraints of the underlying MSI internal UI controls. There isn’t anything you can do about it without writing your own external UI handler ( level of effort = massive )