Re: Splash Screens in GTK

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Jeff Evarts wrote:
>         Alternatively, you could fork and create a child process
> and a socket back to the main one. The child owns the splash page
> and has it's own gtk_main loop, while the parent continues on.

That's is the best solution I've come up with; fork, and draw the
image/update status via Gdk.  Making it an independent process allows
for status updates and such while performing tasks that come before
graphics subsystem initialization -- you can even show progress of the
UI init.

	Jeff