about the 'About' box

[Sarah Reichelt]

>> I am hopefully completing my project and I cannot find how to set
>> up an 'About" box.
>> Could someone point me the way?
>> Many thanks
>>
>>
> Hi Paul,
> An About box can be a simple "answer" dialog, or it can be a separate
> stack. In your Help menu script, you need to check for the user
> picking "About" and either go to your About stack or "answer" the
> details.
> HTH,
> Sarah
>
> Hi Sarah
> I wasn't too clear I think.
> I am needing to know how to get my 'About window'( that lists the  
> authors, version, credits, etc.)  to open when the user picks the  
> 'About ProjectName' under the name of the application beside the  
> apple icon on the Mac menu bar. The standalone has the 'About  
> ' (without the name of the project) on the menu but I do not know  
> how to get into the script for the menu to tell it to open my  
> 'About' window  and to add the menu name. I think it must be  
> something simple that I have not discovered.
>
In Revolution, go to the Help menu and choose Topics -> Menus & the  
menubar.
This gives you a good explanation of what happens to menus in OS X as  
Rev shuffles them around to comply with Apple's guidelines.

Basically, for the About menuitem, you create it and script it as  
part of the Help menu. Then Rev moves it to the application menu, but  
it's scripting still needs to be in the Help menu.

However it now occurs to me that you may not have created a menubar  
but may be using the minimal menu that is created by default for any  
OS X application. You need to go to Rev's Tools menu and choose Menu  
Builder. This will allow you to create a menu and you can then edit  
the name of the About.. menuitem and script for it.

HTH,
Sarah