A dialog box that displays the credits and revision information of a computer software.
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Eclipse RCP 3.7 - feature icon in the about dialog does not apear
I followed this tutorial, but the feature icon does not apear in the about dialog.
What could be the reason?
I have created one feature-X-based product.
I defined a plugin Y as feature X's branding plugin
I added about.ini and an 32x32 px icon to…
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What information is important to include in an About dialog?
What information is important to include in an About dialog?
Definitely:
Name of the software
Version
Copyright notice
Usually:
Assemblies versions (for .NET applications)
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Changing the size of a standard About panel
In my app I display a standard About window using the method orderFrontStandardAboutPanel:of NSApplication.
The panel thus presented has a size of 285x335 pixels. Is there a way to make it bigger?
Thank you.
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Problem on aboutBox() in java
I'm developing a javadesktop application in Netbeans 6.9 and everything is perfect but...it gives me an error on this :
@Action
public void showAboutBox()
{
if (aboutBox == null) {
JFrame mainFrame =…
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How to set icon in gtk.AboutDialog on Windows?
I have an about dialog in my Python application and I want to set a custom icon for the dialog.
I looked at set_logo_icon_name(), but that doesn't accept an absolute path to an image.
What can I do to insert my custom icon?
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How to add "About" action to app on OS X?
In almost every application on OS X, if you click on the name of application, one of the actions is "About". I understand how I can do this in QMenuBar, but seems like it is not a part of it.
The second question is how this will be shown on Windows?…
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Firefox Addon SDK - How to create an about: page
I need to create an about: page, to display addon options. I have seen ti done before, but there seems to be no option in the SDK that allows you to do that.
Is there another way I could let users type about:pagename and get to my page?
I would…
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Can we use asset html files in Alert dialog?
Currently i am using string to show text in alert dialog , is there a way to use assets html file directly without using layout and show alert dialog like this code
private void About() {
AlertDialog alertDialog = new…
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Android: How do I add two buttons into the action bar
I would like to add two buttons into the action bar, but in my case just one button appears. What is wrong with my code?
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How to change the "About" window in my Java program for Mac OS X?
Mac OS X has built in function to show an "About" window.
On my program I can see the name of my head class and "version 1.0".
Where can I change this information? I am using NetBeans and there is nothing related to this setting I can find.
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About Menu in my Xcode 4 Project remains disabled
Unfortunately the About Menu of my project is disabled and I can´t enable it.
I set up an IBOUTLET
IBOutlet NSMenuItem *aboutMenu;
and then I tried to enable it like this in applicationDidFinishLaunching, although I think it should not be disabled…
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Xcode - Customize "About This App"
How do I change the "About this app" window of an app in Xcode? I've made a little app, but I don't know how to change this little thing. Thank you for your help :D
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How can you make an about message under the Application name menu on a Mac?
How can you make the About... Option under the Application Name menu on a Mac work? I would like to have a message that displays the version name for the application.
Thanks!
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Why is Application.aboutHandler() not being called when run from the command line?
In my Java app I use the following code when the main frame is initialized to override the default "About" dialog behavior on MacOS (see here for the Apple extensions).
Application a = Application.getApplication();
a.setAboutHandler(new…
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Netbeans template AboutBox Java
I used this code previously in netbeans 6.9.1 but it does not seem to work in 7.1.1, it underlines .getApplication() with the hint "cannot find symbol".
How can I make this work again?
JFrame mainFrame =…
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