Hi.
I'm having an issue with Gtk#. It's probably just through my own
incompetence.
I want to do something similar to when MonoDevelop loads in my application;
show a splash screen while the heavy duty loading takes place, and then show
the main window. I have created a Gtk# project, with the standard
initialization routine:
public static void Main (string[] args)
{
Application.Init();
MainWindow window = new MainWindow();
window.Show();
Application.Run();
}
My problem is that before Application.Run(), nothing will show in Gtk, so I
can't do a splash screen and loading before it.
I tried this as a test:
public static void Main (string[] args)
{
Application.Init();
SplashScreen splash = new SplashScreen();
splash.Show();
// Pretend we're doing some heavy work...
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
splash.Hide();
splash = null;
MainWindow window = new MainWindow();
window.Show();
Application.Run();
}
And of course it didn't work, it stalled for five seconds and then the main
window showed.
I tried placing the Application.Run() right after splash.Show(). Not a very
bright idea either; the code stopped executing there, the splash window
never got hidden, and the main window never got shown.
I even tried running the code on a separate thread, which wasn't much help
either; nothing ended up getting shown:
public static void ThreadSplash()
{
SplashScreen splash = new SplashScreen();
splash.Show();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
splash.Hide();
splash = null;
MainWindow window = new MainWindow();
window.Show();
}
public static void Main (string[] args)
{
Application.Init();
Thread t = new Thread(ThreadSplash);
t.Start();
Application.Run();
}
This would all work out if I could figure out a way to run code after
Application.Run() without requiring any user input. Which I've been
unsuccessful at so far. That is why I'm here. I am hoping that one of you on
this forum can help me solve this problem.
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