I have been looking at the MultiView About Box for some time now wishing to update the layout. It seems odd & unfinished.
Here is my concept for it. The About Box same as any app should only give information about the program itself. For that reason it will only show the MultiView Program & Version Information & the Datatypes Library & Dataype Information. There will additionally be two buttons - Continue & Cancel. Whereas before we only had Continue. Now when the user selects Cancel the Message Box will close. But Continue will instead pop up additional information about the current file.
For example this will be based on the Super Class of the current Datatype. Such as if we have a Picture Loaded it will show Basename & GroupID as before such as "PNG Picture". It will show the FileSize in bytes as well as Dimensions. There will be Color Information. For ILBM it will list "HAM Colors" or "EHB".
For Sound Files it will list the Basename & GroupID such as "8SVX Sound" as well as FileSize in bytes & various information from VoiceHeader & Sample Data. For Text Files it will be similar along with Total Number of Lines. Animation information also.
That involves more work on my end but it seems better to me.
