Is it possible to draw directly to the desktop? I vaguely recall reading somewhere that that is how some splash screens are done to avoid the overhead of a window...
-------------------------> "These thoughts are mine alone!" <--------- Andrew MacIntyre Operations Branch tel: +61 2 6219 5356 Communications Infrastructure Division fax: +61 2 6253 3277 Australian Communications & Media Authority email: andrew.macint...@acma.gov.au http://www.acma.gov.au/ > -----Original Message----- > From: python-win32-bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov...@python.org > [mailto:python-win32- > bounces+andrew.macintyre=acma.gov...@python.org] On Behalf Of Tim > Roberts > Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2010 10:50 AM > To: Python Win32 Newsgroup > Subject: Re: [python-win32] Win API call to display a BMP/PNG file as a splash > screen for a console app? > > pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: > > > > Thanks for the wxPython code. My reason for wanting to avoid wxPython > > (and pyQt) is that I don't want to ship the wxPython framework just to > > display a splash screen. I believe this might triple the size of my > > PY2EXE generated executables - not a worthwhile tradeoff for a > > cosmetic feature like a splash screen. > > Well, you're going to need a framework of some kind. It's possible you > could make it smaller by using Tkinter, but displaying a bitmap requires > creating a window, and creating a window means you have to have a > message dispatch loop and window procedure, just like a full GUI > application. > > There's really no other way. > > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the email and any attachments to it. The information contained in this email and any attachments may be private, confidential and legally privileged or the subject of copyright. If you are not the addressee it may be illegal to review, disclose, use, forward, or distribute this email and/or its contents. Unless otherwise specified, the information in the email and any attachments is intended as a guide only and should not be relied upon as legal or technical advice or regarded as a substitute for legal or technical advice in individual cases. Opinions contained in this email or any of its attachments do not necessarily reflect the opinions of ACMA. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
