exe4j Wizard - Step 7: Configure Splash Screen

In this step of the exe4j wizard, you can configure a native splash screen for your application.

The behavior of the splash screen can be defined in the General section of this step:
- Show splash screen
  When this option is checked, a native splash screen will be shown during the startup of your application.
- Image file
  choose an image file for the splash screen (of type PNG, GIF or BMP).
- 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.
- 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.

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
- Text
  The (initial) text displayed in the text line.
- 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.
- Font
  The font used for drawing the text line:
  - 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.
  - Weight
    The weight of the font. The 8 Windows standard font weights are offered as a choice.
  - Size
    The size of the font in points.
  - 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.