I've done those things already in my experimentation. Trouble is, my window is
for a different window controller - not Application Delegate - and the window
loads when the class does. Show Window On Launch doesn't seem to make any
difference.
On 16 Jun 2013, at 09:33, Michael Starke
<michael.sta...@hicknhack-software.com> wrote:
> I'm using the same effect in my application.
>
> The problem is, if you use this method, the window might not be there yet.
> Did you inspect if the window iVar is actually not nil?
> The way I did it is using the windowDidLoad method and call
>
> -(void)windowDidLoad {
> [super windowDidLoad]
> [splashWindow setAlphaValue:0.0];
> }
>
> Works find for me. Code is here:
> https://github.com/mstarke/MacPass/blob/master/MacPass/MPOverlayWindowController.m
>
> -Michael
>
> On 16.06.2013, at 10:22, Pax <45rpmli...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to set NSWindow (borderless, with no controls) to be transparent
>> before I display it (so that I can fade it onto the screen). Unfortunately,
>> I don't seem to be able to - it loads, visibly, then sets the opacity to 0
>> (resulting in the window flickering at full opacity, before disappearing and
>> then fading into view. Sure, it's a fast flick - but it's ugly, and not the
>> effect that I'm looking for. Does anyone have any idea how to set opacity
>> to 0 before displaying the window?
>>
>> Before we have the discussion about splash screens by the way, I'd just like
>> to say 'I agree - I hate them too'. To justify my actions, this is because
>> the app loads into the menu bar, not the dock, and so (in testing) I
>> discovered that users thought it hadn't loaded at all. So, on first load
>> only (unless specifically requested otherwise in preferences) a splash is
>> displayed informing the user that the app has loaded - and to look up to the
>> menu bar, not down to the dock.
>>
>> - (id)initSplash
>> {
>> if (self = [super initWithWindowNibName:@"SplashScreen"])
>> {
>> (void) [splashWindow window];
>> [splashWindow setAlphaValue:0.0];
>> return self;
>> }
>>
>> return nil;
>> }
>>
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