Re: Splash Screen Strategy?
Re: Splash Screen Strategy?
- Subject: Re: Splash Screen Strategy?
- From: olivier <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:03:39 -0600
I remember reading a post on a newsgroup that called to avoid splash
screen. Simply put the user know that the application is launching
since its icon is bouncing and its little triangle is blinking in the
dock. Having a splash screen in an OS where multi task exist is the
best way to get in the users way since the splash screen will not be
movable you will force the user to stop his workflow (by hidding
something he is already working on). Which in my opinion is not that
great a user experience. I personnaly don't use splash screen under OSX
for that reason.
I think the solution of making the window invisible until everything is
setup might be a good option. If you want to set up a splash screen
(but as i never did it under Cocoa, what do i know)
Olivier
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 07:45 AM, Steve wrote:
Hi,
My app has one main window with multiple controls and one main
controller. I'd like to open a splash screen before the main window
appears, and before the controller does a lot of setup work in its
awakeFromNib (which takes 3 or 4 seconds).
I could do this by making the main window non-visible, and moving all
my controller initialisation into a seperate routine which I call
after the splash screen has appeared.
Is there a neater or simpler way to do splash screens?
Also, in IB I can't see how to remove a window's (or panel's) title
bar . Do I have to do this programmatically?
Thanks
Steve
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