The Bitmap control only understands BMP and JPEG, and JPEG, being lossy compression, doesn't work too well with the bitmaps used by WiX.
The bitmaps do seem to be smaller in WiX 3.0 versus WiX 2.0, however. Looking at the format I see that they're run-length encoded. It works pretty well for the stock bitmaps as they have large areas of white - the total goes down to 72KB. In theory you can stuff a PNG image into a BMP file - it needs a BITMAPFILEHEADER and a BITMAPINFOHEADER where you set the biCompression field to BI_PNG (5). This is not supported on Windows 95. I don't know whether this will work with Windows Installer, though. -- Mike Dimmick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Webb Sent: 21 June 2007 00:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Replacing stock bitmaps Hi, Is it possible to use jpg's or gif images to replace the stock bitmaps used by the WiXUI? It seems like about 200KB of the MSI file is taken up by uncompressed bitmaps. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
