On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:54:35PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Vincent Snijders wrote: > > > > It is to show the splash screen as soon as possible, not to wait until > > yet another executable is loaded. > > Well then we are talking about milliseconds really. A splash screen is > normally show just after the Application.Initialize call. Surely a few > milliseconds shouldn't make a difference - in return for getting the > startlazarus a bit "lighter" in memory usage department.
A splash screen mostly _IS_ for the odd cases, rather for the case where it all goes fine. E.g. when an unstripped lazarus bin is on a network share it can take long. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus