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  • MSI Splash Screen

    Microsoft, please don't document something that isn't true.

    It's such a little thing, but so annoying on the first day back after a nice few days at the beach.

    Here's a quote:

     The SplashBitmap property specifies a bitmap or JPEG image to be displayed in the dialog box. For best results, you should use an image with dimensions of 480 pixels wide by 320 pixels high. Images with different dimensions will be stretched or shrunk to fit and may appear distorted.

    The Sunken property determines whether to display a sunken border around the image. In the above illustration, the Sunken property is set to true.

    Which actually is complete crap.

    If you leave the Sunken property at it's default setting of True, your images get resized to 478 by 318 pixels. Since I just had a professional designer create the splash screen graphic I'm not about to ask him to cut a couple of pixels off. So I have to lose the sunken effect instead.

    Unfortunately the MSDN page documenting this doesn't have a "did this help?" survey on it so I'll have to resort to raspberry-blowing in a vague north-westerly direction.

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    Posted: Monday, November 28, 2005 4:26 PM by James
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    Comments

    Tjerk Drouen said:

    Actually you need a SplashBitmap 476x316 for Sunken!
    # December 6, 2006 5:55 AM

    Peter Widmer said:

    Thanks, actually I was looking for that! :-)
    # March 27, 2007 2:24 AM
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