Using VCL Visual Styles and License RTF File text colour is wrong

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I am trying out the VCL Visual Styles as an alternative to the skinning DLL I was previously using.

At the moment I am using the skin:

#define Skin "Carbon.vsf"

When the installer shows the RTF License file file the colouring is not as I expect:

The text is black and the background dark. But the other two pages are better:

I specify all my license files in the usual way in the [Languages] section:

Name: "English"; MessagesFile: "compiler:Default.isl"; LicenseFile: "..\..\Inno\l.eng\LicenseEnglish.rtf"; InfoAfterFile: "..\..\Inno\l.eng\InfoAfterEnglish.rtf"

How can I set this skin to use white text for the license file (like on the other pages I have shown)? Why doesn't it do so anyway?

Ideally i would like the Visual Studio 2019 Dark Theme as the skin but don't know how to do that - separate issue!

Update

If I try Amakrits style the license page looks like this:

And:

So it is doing the same thing for multiple style definitions.

@MartinPrikryl OK, I can set the text colour of the RTF file as white and it does indeed display. But then it is impossible to maintain the text file for updates. Also, the InfoAfter is a RTF file and it does not suffer with this bug with the text colour. Infact, for some of the dark themes it looks liek the text is not actually pure white anyway. — Andrew Truckle, Mar 17 '20 at 12:08
Did you try using your InfoAfter RTF file for the license page? How does it display? — Martin Prikryl, Mar 17 '20 at 12:17
@MartinPrikryl Interesting. If I use the InfoAfter file it shows up correct. So what can be different between these two RTF documents then? — Andrew Truckle, Mar 17 '20 at 12:27
@MartinPrikryl In both files it *seems* the text is set to *automatic*. — Andrew Truckle, Mar 17 '20 at 12:33
It's RTF question, not Inno Setup anymore. Try to create the files form the scratch. Or edit it manually. RTF is text-based format. — Martin Prikryl, Mar 17 '20 at 12:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '20 at 15:35

For the benefit of readers of this question I had to re-create my RTF file in WordPad. It had been created in Microsoft Word and that seems to be the reason. Either that or some other RTF encoding issue.

Eitherway, creating the file again WordPad resolved the problem.

Using VCL Visual Styles and License RTF File text colour is wrong

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