Re: Lion's new "Resume" feature, document restoration, and splash screens
Re: Lion's new "Resume" feature, document restoration, and splash screens
- Subject: Re: Lion's new "Resume" feature, document restoration, and splash screens
- From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:39:48 -0700
On Jul 27, 2011, at 15:29, Sean McBride wrote:
> (And I know someone is going to tell me: don't show an icky splash screen... that option is being considered too.)
Incidentally, in the context of Lion and automatic termination/resume, it's no longer just the ickiness that's a problem. The deeper problem is that application existence has been divorced from process existence. When your application's *process* starts up, the *application* may already be active (and vice versa). If you display a splash screen, you risk having it pop up at random times, from the user's point of view.
You seem to be trying to display a license agreement (when the application has been installed/updated?). I'd suggest you pitch this as a modal interaction rather than a splash screen. So, you might want to enter this mode just before opening a document, rather than just after starting the process. Or make the agreement window application-modal, without preventing (at least) resumed windows from being restored.
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