Another hackneyed solution would be to edit the images and color the background the same as the background color of the installer dialog. I did this for one of our bitmaps and it gives the affect you want without needing transparency support.
Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 6:20 PM To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Transparent bitmaps in UI In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Markus Ewald wrote: > > Does Windows Installer support any image formats with transparency? > > > > The only three formats MSI supports are BMP, JPEG, and ICO. Icons > include transparency, but I don't think MSI supports high-color icons. Newer variants of BMP support transparency, but I don't know if MSI will do anything useful with a transparent BMP. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
