From the tutorial:
If you want to change the bitmaps or icons, just do so in the Binary
directory. The front page bitmap (named Dialog.bmp here) is a 503 by 314
pixel BMP while the top banner bitmap has 500 by 63 pixels. But note that
Windows Installer might stretch or shrink these bitmaps if the system font
and display resolution settings of the user ask for a scaling of the whole
interface. To avoid ugly scaling artefacts, make sure you use appropriate
bitmaps. Avoid thin lines supposed to look uniform across the picture, never
incorporate text into the bitmaps (letters in logos are OK but small text
meant to be read is not). And, above all, avoid dithered areas and checkered
backgrounds, those might look very awkward when scaled. To get an idea,
experiment with various scaling factors in your picture editor, making sure
you turn off sophisticated algorithms like bicubic sampling; Windows will
only use plain stretching and shrinking.
On 1/19/07, Steve Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm having a problem where the bitmap I choose as the background of a
WiX-UI setup is getting scaled differently on different machines. It looks
fine on mine (1152x864), but badly pixellated on machines with 1280x1024.
I've tried using a fairly high resolution image but it still looks bad. I've
also tried using the "fixedsize" attribute on the relevant control, but that
just causes the edge of the bitmap to be pushed off the viewable area. I've
also tried using jpegs, 24bit and 8 bit bitmaps…but now I'm out of ideas.
Any ideas from anyone? It's a real problem at the moment.
WIx 2 btw, using the FeatureTree GUI.
Steve
Steve Bennett
[POWERflex Corporation ]
[Tel: +61-3-9548-9006 Fax: +61-3-9548-9003]
[Email: spb @ pfxcorp.com Web: www.pfxcorp.com]
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