Thanks Mike, I have installed WiX 3.0 and this reduced my install file by more than 100kb!
On 6/20/07, Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
