Re: Splash screen

[Terry Ford <tmford@shaw.ca>]

On Nov 27, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Roger Clary wrote:
> > On Nov 27, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> > > Someone did state not to make it a modal. Is there any specific  
> > > reason, or gotcha' someone has run into where it was blocking  
> > > specific events from firing that you wouldn't think it would have  
> > > interfered with? I'm using a frametype 4 "plain box" right now to  
> > > display it.
> > I can't think of a good reason _to_ make it modal. It's most  
> > likely going to be the only screen on the monitor at that point,  
> > and why have to worry about it messing with your events as Terry  
> > suggested.
> Ah. Actually I was just wondering what events it interferes with,  
> to consider in other situations (not just splash screens).
Just stay away from modal windows such as types 1,2 and 8 and don't  
use showmodal and everything should be OK. These types affect many  
events in your app. Type 4 is non-modal.
Terry



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