Windows Installer doesn't support transparency. You'll have to just work at it until it looks nice. Limits of native / internal UI and while it's not the best, I've managed to get some pretty nicely branded MSIs out of it.
---------------------------------------- From: "Tunney, Stephen" <stephen.tun...@nuance.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 1:35 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858 JPG worked but now I get this crappy looking background around my image. Isn't there a way to specify the a specific colour as transparent or do I have to have my background match the colour of the dialog box? -----Original Message----- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: October-09-13 1:57 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858 Negative on the animation of the GIF. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Ogilvie [mailto:steven.ogil...@titus.com] Sent: October-09-13 1:00 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858 Is it an animated GIF? If not why not use a BMP instead? I believe dialogs can only use BMP... Steve -----Original Message----- From: Tunney, Stephen [mailto:stephen.tun...@nuance.com] Sent: October-09-13 12:20 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Error code is 2858 Hello everyone, I'm getting this error as a debug message when attempting to display two GIF images in a UI. I have attached them to this email. Below is the dialog utilizing those files. Some OSes show the images ok. Others do not. Any suggestions would be helpful as I have Google'd and nothing is coming up yet: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi";> <Fragment> <Binary Id="FirewallEnabledBmp" SourceFile="$(var.SolutionDir)Enabled-transparent.gif" /> <Binary Id="FirewallDisabledBmp" SourceFile="$(var.SolutionDir)Disabled-transparent.gif" /> <Property Id="SET_FIREWALL_RULES" Value="0" Admin="yes" Secure="yes"/> <UI> <PropertyRef Id="SET_FIREWALL_RULES"/> <Dialog Id="EQ_FirewallQuestionDlg" Width="370" Height="270"> <Control Id="Back" Type="PushButton" X="180" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Text="!(loc.WixUIBack)" /> <Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUINext)" /> <Control Id="Cancel" Type="PushButton" X="304" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Cancel="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUICancel)"> <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelDlg">1</Publish> </Control> <Control Id="Description" Type="Text" X="25" Y="23" Width="280" Height="15" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes" Text="!(loc.EQ_FirewallQuestionDlg_SubTitle)" /> <Control Id="Title" Type="Text" X="15" Y="6" Width="200" Height="15" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes" Text="!(loc.EQ_FirewallQuestionDlg_Title)" /> <Control Id="BannerBitmap" Type="Bitmap" X="0" Y="0" Width="370" Height="44" TabSkip="no" Text="!(loc.EQ_FirewallQuestionDlg_BannerBitmap)" /> <Control Id="BannerLine" Type="Line" X="0" Y="44" Width="370" Height="0" /> <Control Id="BottomLine" Type="Line" X="0" Y="234" Width="370" Height="0" /> <Control Type="Bitmap" Id="EnableFirewall" Width="48" Height="48" X="15" Y="65" Text="FirewallEnabledBmp" /> <Control Type="Bitmap" Id="DisableFirewall" Width="48" Height="48" X="15" Y="136" Text="FirewallDisabledBmp" /> <Control Type="RadioButtonGroup" Property="SET_FIREWALL_RULES" Id="FirewallSelectionRadioButtonGroup" Width="290" Height="100" X="70" Y="65"> <RadioButtonGroup Property="SET_FIREWALL_RULES"> <RadioButton Text="!(loc.EQ_FirewallQuestionDlg_EnabledRadioButtonText)" Height="17" Value="1" Width="200" X="0" Y="0" /> <RadioButton Text="!(loc.EQ_FirewallQuestionDlg_DisabledRadioButtonText)" Height="17" Value="0" Width="200" X="0" Y="70" /> </RadioButtonGroup> </Control> <Control Type="Text" Id="EnabledDescription" Width="260" Height="40" X="90" Y="90" Text="!(loc.EQ_FirewallQuestionDlg_EnabledDescription_Text)" /> <Control Type="Text" Id="DisabledDescription" Width="260" Height="50" X="90" Y="160" Text="!(loc.EQ_FirewallQuestionDlg_DisabledDescription_Text)" /> </Dialog> </UI> </Fragment> </Wix> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. 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