Richard Gaskin wrote:
> For splash screens, when I use 'em I often make 'em a substack,
> as the loast poster does. But lately I'm even having issues with
> that: My plan was to put up a splash screen first to give the
> user something to look at while my app is loading - the problem is
> that MC is often so fast that the splash screen appears only
> momentarily, requiring that I add an additional wait to make it
> less visuall disturbing, but adding a wait into a boot sequence
> just feels unclean in a Microsoft sort of way (remember that old
> joke C source file floating around listing the Win98 boot
> sequence?). :)
For those interested, the look-and-feel discussion group for KDE on
Linux recently discussed the issue of splash screens. They more or less
unanimously threatened grievous bodily harm to anyone who used splash
screens :-)
Personally I think they exaggerate a tad, but if you find yourself
putting wait commands in, you should rethink your strategy.
--
Steven D'Aprano
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