Microsoft KB Archive/40720

= How to Change &quot;About Application...&quot; Using ResEdit =

Article ID: 40720

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006



This article was previously published under Q40720



SUMMARY
In all Macintosh applications that use the menu bar, the first item under the Apple menu is an &quot;About Application...&quot; item that brings up a dialog box giving you various information about the application.

In applications written and compiled with Microsoft QuickBASIC, this item brings up a simple box which states &quot;This application was created using Microsoft QuickBASIC&quot;. This box and the text for the item under the Apple menu can be changed using ResEdit.



MORE INFORMATION
The Apple menu is in the upper left-hand corner of the Macintosh screen.

Follow these steps to change the dialog box/menu item string for the &quot;About Application...&quot; item in the Apple menu:

 Launch ResEdit. Open your application. Open STR to change the menu item string. Open STR ID = 128. Edit the string and close the edit box. Close the STR window. Open DITL (Dialog Item List) to change the items in the &quot;About application...&quot; dialog box.</li> Open DITL ID = 128.</li> To change the text or edit any existing dialog item, double click on it to bring up the edit box.</li> To add dialog items, select New from the file menu. Note: You can resize the dialog box, but the size will not take effect until you perform the Steps 11 through 15 that follow.</li> When finished adding/editing dialog items, close the DITL window.</li> To resize the dialog and define its placement on the screen, open DLOG.</li> Open DLOG ID = 128.</li> Resize the dialog by doing one of the following:

<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;"> Click in the bottom right corner of the box and drag.</li> Select &quot;Display as text&quot; under the DLOG menu item and change the coordinates.</li></ol> </li> When finished, close all windows, click YES to save changes, and exit ResEdit.</li></ol>

Additional query words: BasicCom MQuickB

Keywords: KB40720

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