about-box

How to design a good about box?

There is not official standard dealing with the layout of about boxes, which display the credits of a computer software and other information. What should a good about box contain? And... is it okay to put an easter egg in? ...

What should I display in my About box?

I've built a small .NET winforms utility for internal use at my company, and as the primary interface is a tab control, I've decided to add a tab for the "about box" instead of a separate form. So, I have some space to fill in my about box. Thus far I have: the program's icon & name version the author's name (me) the year of creation ...

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) ...

Opening an about box using MVVM pattern

I'm working on a new WPF application and I'm trying to stay as close to the MVVM pattern as I can. My XAML files right now have no codebehinds, and all my interactivity is achieved using Josh Smith's RelayCommand class and commands in my ViewModel classes. This worked great until I started working on the housekeeping tasks, such as an ...

How do you create a sequence of modalViewControllers?

I have struggled and now I just need to see it in action. I have an info-button on my title page (UIViewController) and I want to bring up an About-view with a 'dismiss' button on the left and a 'detail disclosure on the right.' If one presses the 'detail disclosure', it brings up the PrivacyStatement-view with the same buttons. If on...

How do I get the About box to appear in C#?

Hello. I have an About box in my C# project using Microsoft's Visual C# 2008 Express Edition named AboutBox1. I have made it look how I want it in the design view, but how do I make it appear when the About link in the Help menu is clicked? This codes makes an About box appear, but it looks blank. It's not the one I designed. priv...

Android - About box in application manager?

Hi all, I was wondering does anyone know how to give an Android application an about box in the application manager? So when a user goes to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications and clicks on an app there is an About box there that the user can click and info about the app pops up. Like the images below? ...

About Window or About Box in WPF 3.5 (VS2008)

Hello All, I am looking for About Window for WPF VS2008. Any Source code is available to download or one have to develop on his/her own. Thanks you, Harsha ...

How to display icon in QMessageBox?

I have an about box that I'm trying to display an icon inside. Here is my code: QMessageBox about_box(this); about_box.setText("..."); about_box.setIconPixmap(QPixmap("qrc:/images/logo.png")); about_box.setParent(this); about_box.exec(); Here is my resource file: <RCC> <qresource prefix="/images"> <file>logo.png</file>...

Problems with about box in WPF application

I have tried adding an about box in blend using the method described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3411952/about-window-or-about-box-in-wpf-3-5-vs2008 However, I end up getting an error saying that the namespace System.Windows.Forms doesn't exist. Does blend not support this namespace? if so, is there another method for ...