AboutWindow

A sleek replacement for the otherwise bleak "About" dialog. Its nice, looks like XCode6's one, and offers the following abilities :

• Open the app's website by clicking its (big) icon (in the dialog) (see Usage below)
• Extend the dialog to show the "License Agreement", or
• The "Acknowledgments" (see Content below),
• Translate the button's text (see Localization below),
• Change the background and text colors
• Also has an Objective C version by @perfaram (from which is derived this Swift-only version)

Pull request welcome !

Setup

Manually

Clone this repo and add files from AboutWindow to your project.

Using cocoapods

Add pod 'AboutWindow' to your Podfile and run pod install. Add use_frameworks! to the end of the Podfile.

Usage

For a live, detailed example, see in AboutWindowExample directory.

1. Import AboutWindowController:

import AboutWindow

2. Create a property:

var aboutWindowController: PFAboutWindowController

3. Instantiate AboutWindow (in applicationDidFinishLaunching:, most likely) :

self.aboutWindowController = AboutWindowController()

You may want to personalize what's going to show up on the window. As every property is accessible, you can tweak everything you want

self.aboutWindowController.appURL = NSURL("http://app.company.com")
self.aboutWindowController.appCopyright = NSAttributedString(string: "Nice Small String", attributes:[
                                                        NSForegroundColorAttributeName: NSColor.tertiaryLabelColor(),
                                                                   NSFontAttributeName: NSFont(name: "HelveticaNeue", size:11)!]
self.aboutWindowController.appName = "About" //'cause it's shorter
  ```

4. Create an IBAction to display the window, and bind it to its caller (usually, the "About [your app]" menu item):
  ```swift
  @IBAction func showAboutWindow(sender: AnyObject) {
      self.aboutWindowController.showWindow(sender)
  }
  ```

5. You may also want the localize the buttons' text :

 Add the following lines to your Localizable.string (below, for example, French)

/* Version %@ (Build %@), displayed in the about window */
"Version %@ (Build %@)" = "Version %@ (%@)";

/* Caption of the 'Acknowledgments' button in the about window */
"Credits" = "Remerciements";

/* Caption of the 'License Agreement' button in the about window */
"EULA" = "CL Utilisateur Final";

## Acknowledgments
* Thanks to [**@perfaram**](https://github.com/perfaram) (and [**@SoneeJohn**](https://github.com/SoneeJohn)) for his PFAboutWindow, which served as a ground for this completely rewritten version

## License (MIT)
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Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Perceval Faramaz
Copyright (c) 2016 Eric Marchand

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