Note: this advanced option screen is reachable by selecting the
"Splash screen" step and choosing
"Splash screen options" from the
[Advanced options]
popup menu or by clicking directly on the index. The options in this step are only available if
"exe4j splash screen" was chosen in the
"Splash screen" step.
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The behavior of the splash screen can be defined in the
General section of this step:
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Hide splash screen when first application window is shown
If this option is checked, the exe4j executable will monitor the state of your
application and hide the native splash screen as soon as a window is opened.
If you want to hide the splash screen programmatically, you can use exe4j's
launcher API.
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Splash screen is always on top
If this option is checked, the splash screen remains always on top of other windows
opened by your application.
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The Status line and Version line sections allow you
to position the text lines on the splash screen and configure their font.
The status line is dynamically updatable with
exe4j's launcher API. If you include the variable
%VERSION% in the version line text, it will be replaced with the
product version defined in the version info step
of the wizard. With the -r flag, you can override this setting for the
command line compiler.
You can configure the following properties of a text line
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Text
The (initial) text displayed in the text line.
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Position
The x and y-coordinates of the text line on the splash screen. The origin of
the coordinate system is the top left corner of the splash screen window.
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Font
The font used for drawing the text line:
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Name
The name of the font. Please choose a common font name that is likely to be
available on all target platforms. If unavailable at runtime, the
MS Dialog font will be used as a fallback.
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Weight
The weight of the font. The 8 Windows standard font weights are offered as
a choice.
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Size
The size of the font in points.
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Color
The color of the font. By clicking on [...], a color chooser
dialog is brought up.
To visually position the text lines with mouse and keyboard
on the actual splash screen image, please click on the
[Position text lines visually] button. The
visual positioning dialog will
then be displayed. On exiting the dialog with the [OK] button,
the X/Y coordinate text fields (see above) will be updated for both text lines.