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[UserMI]

I am having trouble with a custom dialog. I have a Basic MSI project. I have a custom action after InstallFinalize that displays the custom dialog using Define Dialog. Everything works correctly as long as there are no messageboxes diaplyed before the custom action. If a messaegbox does appear beforehand, the custom dialog appears behind the SetUpProgress Dialog. I have tried SetForeGroundWindow, SetFocus, BringWindowToFront using the handle of the custom dialog with no success. Please, any ideas?

thanks in advance

[Glytzhkof]

I was struggling a lot with this earlier, and I never found an acceptable solution. One thing I tried, that worked was to use the windows API to hide the installation dialog itself! (The Basic MSI setup). However, in my case I didn't have a chance to re-enable (show) the setup dialog again in any sensible way, so I worked around the problem in different ways (ended up not using a custom dialog at all).

[Zweitze]

Instead of using a CA to activate the dialog, try using the ControlEvent SpawnDialog to show the dialog.
It works for me: I have a CustomSetup dialog with a help button, that shows another dialog with some hints. It is always shown above the CustomSetup dialog.