On 29-Aug-07, at 10:45 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
and run it. Aaaahhhh! What a nice splash screen ;-) The reason for the (optional) splash screen is that I finally got beaten into delaying the main window creation up until the point when there is something to show
About time, too.
but unfortunately this also leads to the problem that there is no user-visible feedback about the application launch, so the splash screen support became necessary (shame on the Mac VM for delaying window creation without splash screen! ;-)
A splash screen should be configurable in some way. Ideally it ought to be generated by the image! The *real* problem here is the whole " if the time to show something interesting is a couple of seconds" part. There really isn't much of an excuse for such a delay.
I don't think it would be appropriate to have a window of any sort display when you are starting a Seaside server for example. Or running on an IBM 3090. Or a signet ring.
- Smalltalk getSystemAttribute: 10001
Good idea(s)
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Strange OpCodes: PS: Pirate Software