Has anyone actually timed how long it takes to get a Java window on screen? I don’t think the delay is long enough to bother with a splash screen these days.
Scott > On Jun 3, 2018, at 4:22 AM, Tom Schindl <tom.schi...@bestsolution.at> wrote: > > That's why I requested that since a long time from the packager because > a splash has to be part of the native launcher created. > > The Eclipse-RCP-Launcher does exactly the right thing: > * Show a static image (IIRC they use bmp) > * Once the VM and UI-Toolkit is up replace that image with a window (SWT > calls it Shell) so that you can go interactive showing videos, > a progressbar, ... > > Tom > >> On 03.06.18 10:11, Mario Ivankovits wrote: >> A preloader/splash-screen will/should also hide the JVM startup time. >> >> Best regards, >> Mario >> >> >>> Am 03.06.2018 um 09:57 schrieb Tom Schindl <tom.schi...@bestsolution.at>: >>> >>> On 01.06.18 19:42, Johan Vos wrote: >>>> I'm not saying a preloader is really a requirement, but I know of a few >>>> applications that are using it and benefiting from it. >>>> >>>> The preloader functionality is more than just a splash screen, and I see >>>> this valuable for instance when static initializers of classes that are >>>> used in the main class may take a lot of time. >>> >>> Then I'd argue that you can easily refactor your main-class ;-) >>> >>> Tom >>
