Splash screen resizes to be clipped on macOS

This is a minor bug, I think, but opening WireframeSketcher 7.2.1 on macOS Sequoia 15.2 shows a splash screen that looks nice initially:

But then it changes and the image appears to resize within the same bounds and is clipped:

This all happens within a second or two, of course.

Thank you for reporting this issue! I've observed this issue myself, but hoped that this is an issue of Eclipse platform. I'll more into it to see if something can be done on WireframeSketcher's side.

Thanks for looking into it. Maybe related to macOS's HiDPI mode (a.k.a. Retina) and it's changing into a HiDPI mode or something? I don't see a similar thing happening for the splash screen of Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 2024-12 (4.34.0) (Eclipse Adoptium 21.0.5+11-LTS) when I launch it, so maybe there's some way for it to work. (?)

FYI, I also don't see the issue with the splash screen of Portfolio Performance 0.73.0 when I launch it, and it's also an Eclipse RCP application (with a bundled JVM of Azul Systems, Inc. 21.0.5+11-LTS), so it seems like it should be possible to get it to work.

Might be this Eclipse Platform issue: Eclipse splash image looks bad on macOS #39. If so, then you can fix it by changing the WireframeSketcher splash screen image to 72 DPI.

Thanks a lot for taking your time to go down so deeply into this issue! Changing the DPI setting to 72 for the splash image actually fixed the problem. I wasn't even aware that bitmap images can have (and need) such a setting in their metadata. I've also used this occasion to switch from BMP to a more modern PNG format for the splash image, since this is what Eclipse did a few years ago. However there too the DPI needs to be set to 72.

I've used the following command to change the DPI for an existing PNG image to 72:

exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place -PixelsPerUnitX=2835
-PixelsPerUnitY=2835 splash.png

The 2835 value is calculated as: round(72 * 1000 / 25.4) where 72 is the desired DPI. Perhaps this can be useful to others who'll stumble on this post.

I wish you a Happy New Year!

Good to hear! Thanks for fixing it! Happy New Year!