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Fixed an issue that was causing the app icon to render with a 'plated' background color in the taskbar and other areas of Windows. Updated all app icons in Microsoft Store package to match Microsoft's design recommendations. Added multiple scales for app icons for high resolution displays. Added high contrast app icons. Reviewed By: pablovazquez, jmonteath Maniphest Tasks: T79356 Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9681 |
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create_msix_package
This tool is used to create MSIX packages from a given ZiP archive. The MSIX package is distributed mainly through the Microsoft Store. It can also be installed when downloaded from blender.org. For that to work the MSIX package needs to be signed.
Requirements
- MakeAppX.exe - this tool is distributed with the Windows 10 SDK and is used to build the .appx package.
- MakePri.exe - this tool is distributed with the Windows 10 SDK and is used to generate a resources file.
- SignTool.exe - this tool is distributed with the Windows 10 SDK and is used to sign the .appx package.
- Python 3 (3.7 or later tested) - to run the create_msix_package.py script
- requests module - can be installed with
pip install requests - PFX file (optional, but strongly recommended) - for signing the resulting MSIX package. NOTE: If the MSIX package is not signed when uploaded to the Microsoft store the validation and certification process can take up to three full business day.
Usage
On the command-line:
set VERSION=2.83.4.0
set URL=https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.83/blender-2.83.4-windows64.zip
set PUBID=CN=PUBIDHERE
set PFX=X:\path\to\cert.pfx
set PFXPW=pwhere
python create_msix_package.py --version %VERSION% --url %URL% --publisher %PUBID% --pfx %PFX% --password %PFXPW%
Result will be a MSIX package with the name blender-2.83.4-windows64.msix.
With the above usage it will be signed. If the signing options are left out the
package will not be signed.
Optional arguments
In support of testing and developing the manifest and scripts there are a few optional arguments:
--skipdl: If ablender.zipis available already next to the tool use this to skip actual downloading of the archive designated by--url. The latter option is still required--overwrite: When script fails the final clean-up may be incomplete leaving theContentfolder with its structure. Specify this argument to automatically clean up this folder before starting to seed theContentfolder--leavezip: When specified leave theblender.zipfile while cleaning up all other intermediate files, including theContentfolder. This is useful to not have to re-download the same archive from--urlon each usage
What it does
The tool creates in the directory it lives a subfolder called Content. This is
where all necessary files are placed.
The Assets folder is copied to the Content folder.
From the application manifest template a version with necessary parts replaced as their actual values as specified on the command-line is realized. This manifest controls the packaging of Blender into the MSIX format.
Next the tool downloads the designated ZIP archive locally as blender.zip. From
this archive the files are extracted into the Content\Blender folder, but skip
the leading part of paths in the ZIP. We want to write the files to the
content_blender_folder where blender.exe ends up as
Content\Blender\blender.exe, and not
Content\Blender\blender-2.83.4-windows64\blender.exe
Once the extraction is completed the MakeAppX tool is executed with the Content
folder as input. The result will be the MSIX package with the name in the form
blender-X.YY.Z-windows64.msix.
If the PFX file and its password are given on the command-line this MSIX package will be signed.
All intermediate files and directories will be removed.