On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:48:29 +0200 Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Putting a splash screen up stopped all the complaints of "It takes > > _ages_ to load". The funny thing it is takes precisely the same > > amount of time to load to a point of fully functional now, but the > > users all said "Wow you sped up the loading *heaps*". It's a little > > psychological I guess. > > That's true. But instead of a cheap splash screen I would expect such > applications to give some information about *what* it is doing (while > doing it). Of course, it costs more time to code but to me it shows > that the programmers take care of the users. It's mostly loading from disk. After first start when the OS has all in its cache the IDE normally starts in a second. So most of the time the splashscreen waits for the OS to load the executable. IMO this is not a very helpful information, so it is not (yet) written to the splashscreen. Of course when the system is busy or the config files are on a slow network share, then even reading a small xml file can take a long time. So far I think this is too uncommon to implement a progress bar for that. If you have enabled the option to auto open the designer forms, then opening a project can take some time. This option is on by default to impress people (aka newbies). I normally turn it off. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus