Question

What I’m trying to do:

I’ve added a splash screen to an application I’m creating for Windows Phone 7. I did this simply by replacing the pre-existing splash screen file with my own.

What goes wrong:

The splash screen is not displayed like it should be – it is being down sampled to an 8 bit image or something weird:

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The image I’m using

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The image that gets displayed

It’s a bit hard to see depending on your monitor, but on a phone it’s reasonably obvious. There are fuzzy greenish lines that appear – basically like the image is being down sampled or the quality worsened.

Any idea what I’m doing wrong, or what might be happening?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try forcing the app to display images at 32 bits per pixel (instead of the default of 16)

Add an attribute of BitsPerPixel="32" to the app element in WMAppManifest.xml
See http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/p/85960/520394.aspx#520394