On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:33:04PM -0000, Dave Hooper wrote: > The wizard bitmap is 164x314 pixels by 16 colors (i.e. 4 bit). I don't know > how customisable the colordepth is but I would expect 256 colors (i.e. 8 bit > palettised) to work just fine too.
Cool, I will pass this on to my friend who can draw something. > As for downloading the JRE - I am unable to test this as a fresh install at > the moment (unless I'm prepared to actually uninstall the preexisting JRE, > which I'm not) but the installer has all the same code as the previous one > to prompt the user to go to http://www.javasoft.com and download the JRE. > I've been assured that it works. I am sure it does, however asking someone to visit a website probably discourages about 90% of our potential users. > However if you would like me to augment this with an automatic installation > of a mirrored copy of Sun's JRE at freenetproject.org then let me know where > you would like the JRE to be uploaded to (to me snapshots would be a strange > place to put it) and I'll code it in. I think snapshots is the right place, since that is where all of the other downloadable files go. > In 'custom' mode the user will be prompted if they would like to download a > JRE from freenetproject.org Just checking, but have we moved away from using those dialog boxes to prompt the user for information? We really should try to stick with the standard Wizard paradigm for getting input from the user (ie. radio buttons). Ian. -- Ian Clarke ian@[freenetproject.org|locut.us|cematics.com] Latest Project http://locut.us/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/ian/
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