[WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

2014-07-28 Thread Taylor, Duane E.
Hello, I am getting the following error and I am having difficulty finding information about it. Can anyone point me to where this error is described? Thank-you. DEBUG: Error 2851: The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

2014-07-28 Thread Hoover, Jacob
Are you customizing the image of a WiX UI? Are you providing the icon in the expected format? What OS is this error coming from (I seem to remember some WIC updates for XP...) -Original Message- From: Taylor, Duane E. [mailto:tay...@mitre.org] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:45 AM To:

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

2014-07-28 Thread Taylor, Duane E.
I am creating a WiX installer and it is running on Windows Server 2008 r2. I am customizing a WiX UI in order to present a series of variables to the user that the user can modify. They are just text boxes. I have a custom action that is initializing a database. As for logos, I am

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid

2014-07-28 Thread Hoover, Jacob
I believe the answer is a bitmap is not an icon... -Original Message- From: Taylor, Duane E. [mailto:tay...@mitre.org] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 12:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid I am creating a WiX

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid [P]

2014-07-28 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Classification: Public I believe your ICON file must be a .ICO check the WIX documentation... steve -Original Message- From: Taylor, Duane E. [mailto:tay...@mitre.org] Sent: July-28-14 1:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid [P]

2014-07-28 Thread Steven Ogilvie
Classification: Public From the documentation: 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

Re: [WiX-users] The data for the icon WixUI_Ico_Info is not valid [P]

2014-07-28 Thread Taylor, Duane E.
I copied the ..\src\ext\UIExtension\wixlib\Bitmaps\info.ico file to my project directory and mapped WixUIInfoIco to that file. With that the error disappeared. WixVariable Id=WixUIInfoIco Value=..\..\images\info.ico/ Thanks everyone. -Original Message- From: Steven Ogilvie