Re: Startup splash screen..

[blythe2 tcnj edu]

I use LyX a lot, and I like how they do their splash screen.  When the
application starts up, there is no file loaded into the main window, so a
splash screen sits there, as part of the "background" before a file is
opened.  When a file is opened it just pops over the dull grey background,
and over the little splash.  So it's not really a *window*, it's just a
static splash screen on top of the blank window background.

Obviously, this is only practical for some applications, and I don't know
what you're writing, but I thought it's cool, and worth mentioning.

-Nate

> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:47 +0200, Daniel Haude wrote:
> > This is not the way to do it. The function of a splash screen is to
> > entertain/inform the user while the application performs some necessary
> > start-up functions, not to keep him from working while a no-op timer
> > runs
> > out.
> >
> > If your application doesn't have a sufficiently lengthy startup time,
> > don't make a splash screen.
>
> Point taken... however it does add some nice "eye-candy" to my app ;-)
> On another point it's non blocking and I've been planning to add an
> option to disable it...
> It displays for no more than 3 seconds anyway, you'd have to be in a
> real hurry to get bothered by that ;-)
>
>
> --
> Daniel Pekelharing
> <legendstar gmail com>
>
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