[WiX-users] WixUI Banner image sizes

[Troy H. <tho...@gm...>]

First, thanks all for helping put me on the right track with merge modules
in my last message. I figured that out and it's exactly what I needed.

My current question revolves around the stock ui in WixUIExtensions.dll and
the image sizes.

Our company currently has a number of installers that were built with .Net
Setup Projects. Those installers all use a standard banner bitmap that is
497 x 69 pixels. The WixUI standard banner is 493 x 58. In the WixUI source
code, the dialog banner sizes in the control tags are set to 370 x44, but in
the .Net Setup projects (inspecting with Orca) they are 375 x 52.

I would prefer to be able to continue generating MSIs in .Net Setup Projects
when needed, but also use Wix.

As it see it, I'm left with two options:
1. Maintain two sets of graphics, with slightly different sizes, to be used
in their respective dialogs (ie, keep a banner graphic at 497x69 for .Net
Setup Projects, and another at 493x58 for Wix projects)
2. Download the source for WixUIExtensions.dll, edit all the dialogs to
match the .net setup project sizes, recompile, and reference this customized
dll in all my wix projects.

I prefer not to have to maintain seperate graphics, because, to put it
simply, it will get confusing, and create double the work for the guy who is
generating the graphics (sometimes me, sometimes our in-house designer). I
imagine that even if we were diligent about creating seperately sized ones,
that the developers creating the MSIs might forget which one to use, ending
up with streched or crunched banners anyway... They of course won't notice,
but anyone else in the world would. I will have to be the
setup-banner-graphics-size police from now until the distant future.. etc..

I lean heavily towards the one graphic size for all dialogs option (option
2)...

So, my question is this... Since I'm probably not the only person who has
ever encountered this problem.. Has anyone else done the work already to
modify all the sizes in WixUI to match the .Net Setup projects? If so, would
it be possible for me to get the custom WixUIExtension.dll?

Also, since I imagine this will annoy a lot of people, is there any reason
why it's different in the first place? Is there any interest in updating the
"official" codebase to use the (unchangeable) standard set by the .Net Setup
projects?

Thanks,
Troy