splash-screen

Splash Screen that doesnt go away

Hello, I'm using a Splash Screen from Here. I love how simple it is. But the problem with it is that the spash screen doesn't go away until I click on it. When run within the IDE it works fine. Any ideas? I'd attach the code here but its not inserting properly for some reason. private System.Windows.Forms.Timer timer1; //private Spl...

C# Splash Loading Page

Im about to start working on a big application (big for me anyway :P) and i was wondering, how do i create a splash page for the program that shows up as soon as the exe is launched and disappears when all of the exe is loaded? ...

Rendering splash screen on the iPhone using Open GL ES

Hi, I want to render a splash screen on the iPhone whilst using an Open GL view. The iPhone screen as we know is 320x480, which is not a power of 2. Before I enter into the world of chopping the texture up and rendering sub parts, or embedding the screen on another texture page I was wondering if there was another way? Is it possible ...

WPF Splash Screen w/Dynamic Elements. How?

Hi All, I'm new to WPF, and I need some help. I have a slow-loading WPF app, so I am displaying a splash screen as a stopgap solution. However, I'd like to be able to have the screen change on each run, and display a different quote in a text area (it's a productivity app, so I'll be using non-sappy yet motivating quotes). I wouldn't p...

ProgressBar in Silverlight Custom Splash Screen

How does one embed the Silverlight ProgressBar control in a a custom splash screen? I put the following into loose xaml (simplified for brevity): <Grid xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/client/2007" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"&gt; <ProgressBar /> </Grid> The error message is as follows: Error: ...

How to show a splash screen to kill the time while data is loaded?

When starting my app I at first have to read in some data, have to init some forms and so on. For that time the user sees just grey getting-ready to show something forms. This lasts for a few seconds... I thought of a Splash Screen that loads the data in a seperate Thread and also shows how long it will take. Or just a status bar? How...

MsgBox is coming below the Splash screen in VB.NET

I have a splash screen set using the Application Framework. In my main form, I check for some conditions in Load() event of the MainForm and display a MsgBox if some of them fails. But the problem is, the MsgBox comes below the Splash Screen. Is there any way to correct this? ...

C# Winform Applications Preloader Splash Screen

how do i calculate the loading percentage of my C# application. i want to show a splash screen with a progress bar showing percentage of application loaded. Is there any standard method\library for that or i will have to just update the progress bar value at different points in my form load code. Or can any gimme a tutorial on applica...

A different requirement for a Splash Screen in winforms app

Hi there. Ok, I know this has been asked a million times before (and people also start off their StackOverflow question in the very same way XD), but I would like to know how to achieve the following: The application first launches a login box If the login is successful, then the splash screen must show (on a separate thread). While t...

iPhone - Splash Screen with progress bar

Hi Developers, I tried to create a SplashView which display the Default.png in the background and a UIProgressBar in front. But the splash screen is not being updated... Inside my view controller I load first the splash view with a parameter how many steps my initialisation has and then I start a second thread via NSTimer and after eac...

Hide WPF Window Until Fully Loaded

For my WPF application, I am storing several user settings like window position, window state, and whether or not to display a welcome dialog. The problem is that while everything is loading up, I see a lot of flashing and flickering as the windows are loaded in, and then more flickering when the window is maximized after reading in the...

Load Data and show a splash screen during that

I got to load some data out of a db4o database which takes 1 or 2 seconds at the startup of my app, the rest has to wait because first of all the data has to be loaded. doing this in an own thread would mean that the rest has to wait for the thread-finishing. I'd like to do a splash screen or something during the data is loaded for what ...

Blackberry - Application loading screen

Hi all.. my application contains lots of images..so it takes some time to load the application..i want to show a loading screen whhile the application is being loaded...how is it possible..?? ...

QT: Hide the title bar of a dialog/window

I have a parent window in which a push-button's click event function has the following lines: SplashScreenDialog *splScrDlg = new SplashScreenDialog(this); splScrDlg->show(); What I want is I want to remove the maximize button, minimize button, close button and also the title bar from the dialog(or window). [Actually it is for a splash...

splash screen like tap tap revenge 3

Hi, thank you for taking your time to read this message. I hope you are able to answer my question. I would like to add a splash screen to an existing project similar to that of tap tap revenge 3. it basically shows one screen for 2 seconds then another for 2 seconds and then it just shows the menu straight away. Can anyone tell me how...

How to measure an application loading time ?

Hi everyone, I am wondering how to measure an application Loading Time when user starts the process,application instance so that I can show a progress bar or something which informs users what's happening when application is loading or how much application loading is completed. I mean what if I want to show current progress with a prog...

WPF application window appears on top of SplashScreen

I followed the simple steps outlined at How to: Add a Splash Screen to a WPF Application to add a splash screen to my WPF application. When I start the application, the splash image is shown, then the main window pops up, and the splash image fades away. My problem is that when the main window pops up, it appears on top of the splash im...

How to create WPF Application Preloader (like one on this Word 2010)?

How to create WPF Application Preloader (like one on this Word 2010 Prt Scrn)? Drag able and Close able=) ...

Is there a way to set System.Windows.Controls.SplashScreen to a System.Windows.Window

Hello folks! I was wondering if I can set the splash screen to a programmatic SplashScreen instead of having to do it thru an image. Any ideas? Best regards ...

Splash screen display method best practice C#

I am showing a splash form by starting a new thread immediately before running my main form. In the method that is run by this thread, I am using Application.Run as shown in Option 1 below. Is this a correct way of doing this, or are there problems waiting for me becaue I have called Application.Run twice? An alternative is Option 2, al...