Warning message question

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Friedrich,

I've replaced the images in the dialogs and during compiles I'm getting warnings
about colors > 256. They look fine. Is there something I need to pay attention
to?

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Russell B. Eggen
www.radfusion.com
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Russ.

from an old message that Friedrich posted ...
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This is not an old "limitation"! On some machines a 24bit bitmap works fine
(and fast), on other machines it takes 30 or more minutes to display the
first installer dialog. It depends on the processor and/or graphic card.

I would suggest to convert your bitmap to a 256 color bmp file. Microsoft
recommends to use 256 color files and .msi also supports 256 colors only.

Thanks,
Friedrich

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John

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Thanks John!

I had no idea. I'll watch this.

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Russell B. Eggen
www.radfusion.com
Clarion developers: www.radfusion.com/devs.htm

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Russ,

The SB7 help has the phrase

"SetupBuilder supports up to 24bit color bitmaps (we recommend to use 256
color bitmaps). "

in both the "Installer Style" and "Billboards" topics, but lacks the
additional detail John's reply provides.

Jane

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Russ,

I have not seen a machine that does not support 24-bit Bitmaps for a very
long time now. But I know that quite a few of our customers still have to
support 256 Color configurations (about 11% still have to support Win98).

SetupBuilder itself supports 24-bit Bitmaps without any problem (feature
added back in 2006).

Friedrich

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Friedrich,

Thanks! I was just curious since everything looks fine.

BTW - do you think you would ever add another category of compiler messages?
Errors and warnings you have. I'm thinking info type messages. For example,
instead of the warning that a module is already code signed, how about making that
informational since there really is nothing to warn about?

You know SB7 is in decent shape when you get trivial requests like that! <vbg>

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Russell B. Eggen
www.radfusion.com
Clarion developers: www.radfusion.com/devs.htm

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Hi Russ,

> Thanks! I was just curious since everything looks fine.
>
> BTW - do you think you would ever add another category of compiler
> messages? Errors and warnings you have. I'm thinking info type messages.
> For example, instead of the warning that a module is already code signed,
> how about making that informational since there really is nothing to warn
> about?
>
> You know SB7 is in decent shape when you get trivial requests like that!
> <vbg>

<VBG>

Yes, I think this is a good idea. I can add a checkbox option to the
code-sign and embed-manifest directives to treat "warnings" as
"information".

For our own projects (e.g. SB deployment), I would not make use this option
because I need the warning. When it is reported in my projects then I did
something wrong.

Friedrich

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OK - I have my code signing to skip if its already there. If I read you
correctly, I understand why you would not want that in your projects, like for
compression?

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Russell B. Eggen
www.radfusion.com
Clarion developers: www.radfusion.com/devs.htm