Re: ? O-ishT: Designing an About Box

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"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:41FCB4FB-07B5-4C32-A1D7-94E7C817187D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I typically put helpful information as well as copyright information in the About box. I also put the logo for Flash and things like that. I have a button that pops up a dialog with all the DLLs my program loads and finds and the version and location on disk of the DLL. We've found that to be useful for doing support.

Snap!

I have a bitmap with the logo.
Text is drawn onto the top of the bitmap including copyright and version information from the VERSIONINFO.

Below the picture I have

An "Ok" button: dismisses the about box
A "diagnostic" button brings up the list of DLLs used.
An "info" button which brings up contact and support details
A hypertext link which launches the default browser on the program's web site.

My next version has a configurable colour for the mainframe background (the windows default colour is so passé. don't you think?) AND (N.B. I claim copyright on this <g>) the About Box bitmap colours come up toning artistically with whatever mainframe background colour the user has chosen! It's a nice Easter egg - a surprise for all users of the next version - err - at least those who don't read this newsgroup. I thoroughly expect to sell millions of copies to people who will be able to amuse themselves for hours on end without ever opening a document window!

[OK, I confess, I was bored one day after a hard day's debugging.]

Dave
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David Webber
Author of 'Mozart the Music Processor'
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