About Box
Volume Number: 7
Issue Number: 1
Column Tag: Programmer's Workshop
The About Box 
By Jack Edward Chor, Belleville, IL
This article presents a shell for creating a consistent and informative About
dialog in your Macintosh™ applications. Although it is not the esoteric stuff of which
Turing Awards are made, this shell does demonstrate the use of PICT resources and
userItems in dialogs, the use of a filterProc function in a ModalDialog call, the wealth of
information that is contained in a single call to SysEnvirons, and the ease with which
the Sound Manager can be worked into dialogs. An example of the About dialog created by
this shell is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1