Wix (Windows Installer) changing the color of a control

This is a simple gotcha related to changing the color of a control. Let's say you have a label that you want to present in a different color. Normally you would do something like this:

<!-- I put it somewhere in Product.wxs -->
<TextStyle Id="WixUI_Font_Normal_Red" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="8" Red="255" Green="55" Blue="55" />
 
<!-- somewhere in your UI -->
<Control Id="LabelRed" Type="Text" X="62" Y="200" Width="270" Height="17" Property="MYPROPERTY">
     <Text>{\WixUI_Font_Normal_Red}!(loc.MYPROPERTY)</Text>
</Control>

Yet for some reason, it doesn't work when the control is a checkbox, for example. The simple explanation is that this is by design: only text controls can change color. The solution is to split your control into the edit control without a text, then add a text control next to it with the color you need.

Here is an example of a checkbox that changes the label color based on the check value:

        <Control Id="DoNotRunScriptsCheckbox" Type="CheckBox" X="45" Y="197" Height="17" Width="17" Property="DONOTRUNSCRIPTS" CheckBoxValue="1"/>
 
        <Control Id="DoNotRunScriptsLabel" Type="Text" X="62" Y="200" Width="270" Height="17" CheckBoxPropertyRef="DONOTRUNSCRIPTS">
          <Text>!(loc.DoNotRunScriptsDescription)</Text>
          <Condition Action="hide"><![CDATA[DONOTRUNSCRIPTS]]></Condition>
          <Condition Action="show"><![CDATA[NOT DONOTRUNSCRIPTS]]></Condition>
        </Control>
 
        <Control Id="DoNotRunScriptsLabelRed" Type="Text" X="62" Y="200" Width="270" Height="17" CheckBoxPropertyRef="DONOTRUNSCRIPTS">
          <Text>{\WixUI_Font_Normal_Red}!(loc.DoNotRunScriptsDescription)</Text>
          <Condition Action="hide"><![CDATA[NOT DONOTRUNSCRIPTS]]></Condition>
          <Condition Action="show"><![CDATA[DONOTRUNSCRIPTS]]></Condition>
        </Control>