A splash screen has to be that instant that it IMHO makes no sense to time how long it takes to get the JVM and JavaFX up and running because it can never be as instant as a splash has to show up.
Tom On 04.06.18 01:06, Scott Palmer wrote: > 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 >>>
