About Box and Language Dialog Ideas

[RadeonUser]

At some point we need to revisit this because I don't like what we have now.


No it's not that important but it's polish that will need to be done.


The earliest might be... oh I don't know maybe in May.
I foresee dealing with settings and cheats for all of March and part of April.

[Gent]

If we are indeed are heading down the C++ route long term, then the newer about i feel would be must nicer (Animated)

[Gent]

Ok finally completed this damn thing in C++
I think to be honest it would be better to launch the about.exe from pj's help about menu as i have included website and devboard links from the standalone exe.
In Main.c
Line 1202         case ID_HELP_ABOUT: ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "About.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWDEFAULT); break;
then add the about.exe to resource.
Source, exe and gif below attached

[Gent]

Ok made the exe in focus this time and able to minimize, but would be nice to have the exe close when main exe closes also?

in current source:

Line 1172        case ID_HELP_ABOUT: ShellExecute (NULL, "open", "About.exe", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWDEFAULT); break;

What i am thinking is to have pj check for the about.exe on clicking Help/About Project64 and if not there directing to a download link? (if it is not intended to be part of the installation release)

Maybe make a self extracting archive to place it in the root directory also?

For the record, I really like this, looks and feels nice.

Anyway source added below with a video

[Gent]

Same as above but this is the 2020 version 

Also changes to About Ini Files

PJ64.rc  changes to:

Line 373    GROUPBOX        "Rom Database Settings (.RDS)",IDC_RDB,5,46,175,59
Line 378    GROUPBOX        "Cheat Database (.CDB)",IDC_CHT,6,107,175,59
Line 387    GROUPBOX        "Rom Database Information (.RDI)",IDC_RDX,6,168,175,59

Language.cpp Changes to:

Line 28   { INI_CURRENT_RDB,     "Rom Database Settings (.RDS)"     },
Line 29     { INI_CURRENT_CHT,     "Cheat Database (.CDB)"  },
Line 30   { INI_CURRENT_RDX,     "Rom Database Information (.RDI)"},