logo and wait...

[francex tiscali it]

Hi,

I have seen in many KDE apps, a logo and a message 'please wait' before
main application starts. My GTK+ app at start, loads many datas and so,
after many seconds, suddenly main window popups. This is very ugly!

My "idea" for "logo window" is:

a) Show a window with logo and label.
b) 'Catch' signal after window is showed.
c) After signal is caught load 'data/settings'.
d) Destroy logo-win.
e) Launch 'main_window_application'.

Questions:

1) Could be it a good solution or exists alternative?
2) 'expose-event' is not right signal to catch event when window is realized
(it repeats for every expose). Exists a more 'generic' signal to catch window
only when window is realized/showed first time? (sorry for my bad bad english)

Thanks,
Francesco

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