Exe4j Wizard - Text Lines On Splash Screen


Note: this advanced option screen is reachable by selecting the "Splash screen" step and choosing "Text lines" from the [Advanced options] popup menu or by clicking directly on the index.

  If you would like to overlay lines of text for status and version information on the splash screen, you can select the check box at the top.

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:
    • Size
      The size of the font in points.
    • Bold
      Whether the font weight should be bold or not.
    • 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.