Re: Draft JEP for new Packaging Tool (replacement for javapackager)

2018-06-03 Thread Scott Palmer
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 wrote: > > That's why I requested that since a long time from the packager because > a

Re: Draft JEP for new Packaging Tool (replacement for javapackager)

2018-06-03 Thread Tom Schindl
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

Re: Draft JEP for new Packaging Tool (replacement for javapackager)

2018-06-03 Thread Mario Ivankovits
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 : > > 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

Re: Draft JEP for new Packaging Tool (replacement for javapackager)

2018-06-03 Thread Tom Schindl
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