What is AquaAboutBox 1.1.1?

REALBasic tool helps your app follow Apple HIG.

In depth

A closer look at AquaAboutBox 1.1.1

This project provides an About box template that follows Apple's Aqua Human Interface Guidelines down to the pixel, so that your application looks and feels like a good MacOS X app should. The Aqua HI Guidelines specify exactly the layout, font sizes and spacing of an about box, so downloading this project will save you an hour or two of tweaking. It includes the StaticURL class, a StaticText subclass that behaves like a web link.

This source code is in the public domain. Thanks to Amar Sagoo at The Interface Mafia for the article that inspired this project.

Verdict

Should you download AquaAboutBox 1.1.1?

AquaAboutBox 1.1.1 runs on Mac OS and is available under the Freeware license — the installer is 33 KB. We’ve catalogued it under Editors.

Verified clean. Every AquaAboutBox 1.1.1 build on SoftLookup is scanned for viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and backdoors. We re-test on every update.