About Window - ABOUT

The About component helps you to create a beautiful 'About this application' window, to give your database a more professional look.

Simply create a background image for the preferred window size, using the guide files provided, and place them in the relevant folder of your host database. Set a few options and you have the about window ready.

Different sizes to suit your application

Choose from 3 standard window sizes that most applications use:

Scrolling text

Even have a scrolling text when using the Large about window.

Features

• Choice of 3 sizes of window
• Display the database name and version
• Add text (can be used for copyright or promotions)
• Scrolling text (large screen only)
• Display licensing information (large and medium screens only)
• Set hotspots launching a method or a URL
• Use any background image
• Show list of tables and number of records (large screen only)
• Show list of installed plugins and versions (large screen only)
• Show list of installed components and versions (large screen only)
• Show licensing agreement text (large screen only)
• Display about window as a load progress during startup

List of commands

• ABOUT DEFINE ACTIVEAREA
• ABOUT LOAD START
• ABOUT LOAD STOP
• ABOUT LOAD UPDATE
• ABOUT METHOD
• ABOUT OVERRIDE WINDOW TYPE
• ABOUT SET
• ABOUT SET BACKGROUND COLOUR
• ABOUT SET DATABASE NAME VERS
• ABOUT SET HYPERLINK
• ABOUT SET LICENCE COLOURS
• ABOUT SET LICENCE INFO
• ABOUT SET TEXT