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Default How to create those little info boxes that come up upon opening? - 03-24-2007 , 04:31 PM






I've seen some solutions that show little snippets off information
upon solution startup. I don't see where these are coming from.
There aren't hidden layouts that I can see or scripts. How are these
created?

They'll often say something like this - "to use this demo, type in the
password ...", whatever. Would like to know how to do that. I've
created "splashscreens", of course, out of a layout that's displayed
but this isn't the same things. TIA.


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Default Re: How to create those little info boxes that come up upon opening? - 03-25-2007 , 05:35 AM







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I've seen some solutions that show little snippets off information
upon solution startup. I don't see where these are coming from.
There aren't hidden layouts that I can see or scripts. How are these
created?

They'll often say something like this - "to use this demo, type in the
password ...", whatever. Would like to know how to do that. I've
created "splashscreens", of course, out of a layout that's displayed
but this isn't the same things. TIA.

You don't state version, so answer is on v7 & v8.
Probably from a startscript displaying a custom messagebox. (For earlier
versions it was just messagebox.) Open the file preferences and look which
script is performed on opening. Then go to the scripts and look up that
script. See what is in there.





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Default Re: How to create those little info boxes that come up upon opening? - 03-25-2007 , 09:27 AM





On 03/24/2007 18:31:46 Cerulean <Spamming (AT) NOTallowed (DOT) com> wrote:

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I've seen some solutions that show little snippets off information upon
solution startup. I don't see where these are coming from. There aren't
hidden layouts that I can see or scripts. How are these created?

They'll often say something like this - "to use this demo, type in the
password ...", whatever. Would like to know how to do that. I've created
"splashscreens", of course, out of a layout that's displayed but this
isn't the same things. TIA.
In 7+, you can script windows of different sizes and position to open, displaying specified layouts, waiting for input, etc.

Look at File Options to determine what script is set to run on startup.

If you have Developer/Advanced, just turn on Debug Scripts and watch what happens.

Matt


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