Re: Startup splash screen..

[Daniel Pekelharing <legendstar gmail com>]

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 ;-)


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Daniel Pekelharing
<legendstar gmail com>