On Nov 26, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
What approach is best described as a best practice for creating a
splash screen as your program is loading? Advice?
You can have your splash screen fire off a thread that will load your
user's preferences, check your site for updates, restore their
windows, and do all your set up work. Once the thread is done, if you
think it's been up long enough, close the splash and return to the
regularly scheduled program. If you think it needs to be up a little
longer, set a timer that will close the window after the right amount
of time -- but also allow a user's click to close the windows early.
If it's done well (i.e. not annoyingly) I think a splash screen is a
good ad for you and your product while the work of getting started it
being done.
Just my 2 luma worth.
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Kirk Gray
REALbasic Professional 2008r4.2
MacBook Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.5.5
Power Mac dual G4, OS X 10.4.11
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