Re: Startup splash screen..

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:47:39PM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:03:41 +0200, Daniel Pekelharing  
> <legendstar gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I want to implement a simple startup splash screen for my app, a simple
> > border-less window with an image which displays for a few seconds...
> >
> > It's really nothing complicated to implement, just a simple timer to
> > close the window or something like that..
>
> 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.

And if it has lengthy startup time, think about shortening
it first.

Yeti


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