Why do my MSI images look corrupted when using WiX?

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+4 Q:

Why do my MSI images look corrupted when using WiX?

+6 A:

Your image is too big dimension-wise. Banner Images must be 493 × 58 and your image is 500 × 63, causing it to be resized.

See Customizing Built-in WixUI Dialog Sets

By the way: nice to see Synergy2 is finally getting an update!

Andrew Moore 2009-07-12 21:22:21

Thanks! Yes, I've been hammering the project with activity for a couple of months now and I think things are starting to progress. I hope you get chance to try it out. Shameless plug alert! http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/ - you may want to take a look at the issues. Thanks again.

nbolton 2009-07-12 23:24:02

+3 A:

Andrew's right. It's covered in wix.chm.

Those are the wrong dimensions. From the relevant wix documentation topic:

Replacing the default bitmaps

The WixUI dialog library includes default bitmaps for the background of the welcome and completion dialogs and the top banner of the other dialogs. You can replace those bitmaps with your own for product branding purposes. To replace default bitmaps, specify WiX variable values with the file names of your bitmaps, just like when replacing the default license text.

Variable name / Description / Dimensions:

WixUIBannerBmp / Top banner / 493 × 58

WixUIDialogBmp / Background bitmap used on the welcome and completion dialogs / 493 × 312

WixUIExclamationIco / Exclamation icon on the WaitForCostingDlg / 32 × 32

WixUIInfoIco / Information icon on the cancel and error dialogs / 32 × 32

WixUINewIco / Button glyph on the / BrowseDlg 16 × 16

WixUIUpIco / Button glyph on the BrowseDlg / 16 × 16

Bob Arnson 2009-07-12 23:00:03

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