set size of the mount app window

[hetal-patadia]

Hello,

How can I set the size of the window which shows the MyApp.app to drag to Applications directory? Currently, I am facing a problem where the window is too big and my background and icons are sitting in the corner of that window. I was not able to find anything specific related to that in the wiki.

Thanks! -Hetal

[LinusU]

Hmm, the size should be automatically set to the size of the image. Could you post your background image here so that I can debug?

[hetal-patadia]

Sorry for the delayed reply @LinusU. Please find the file attached. Here are my params in package.json

"contents": [
        {
          "x": 350,
          "y": 180,
          "type": "link",
          "path": "/Applications"
        },
        {
          "x": 100,
          "y": 180,
          "type": "file"
        }
      ]

[LinusU]

The size of the window is the same size as the image. If you want to have a retina background image, you need to provide both a normal scaled one, and a retina version.

Please read the following part of the readme: Retina Background

[hetal-patadia]

Thanks for your help on this @LinusU. However, when I add the image with @2x as a Retina Background; it adjusts the window size accordingly; however the background (window) seems approx. 1.5 times bigger than the previous case. Hence, the coordinates (x,y) will change for both the App and /Applications.

I wonder how can we set coordinates for both retina as well as non-retina backgrounds at the same time.

[LinusU]

@hp011235 Can you send me both of the background files?

[hetal-patadia]

I didn't do much except renaming the same file (attached above) with @2x.

[LinusU]

You need to downsize the normal file to half the size of the 2x image

[hetal-patadia]

I see. So, basically; I need to find the perfect size which will suffice both the retina as well as non-retina displays? Any recommended dimensions?

[LinusU]

Well, retina displays will display 2x2 pixels per one normal pixels, so just pick a good size on your own monitor and scale appropriately.

e.g. the picture you uploaded seems to be 894 × 576, the non-retina version of that would be 447 x 288. That's a bit small but it's by all means usable.

I've found that a icon-size of 80 and a window size of 640 x 480 works really well. You can try it out by making one image that's 640 x 480, and another one that's exactly 1280 x 960 which you'll save with the @2x postfix.

[hetal-patadia]

Awesome! Thank you for clarifying that.