splash-screen

Transparency in splash screen

I saw the splash screen of the Corel-Draw 12 application and lost my mind! What technique do they use? On application start-up they load a transparent image, use windows api or what? How do they achieve this transparency? ...

Splash screen on windows mobile.

Only that: What is the best to do it? I'm using C#, .Net Compact Framework 2.0 SP2, and Windows Mobile 5.0 and above. I'm trying with a winForm but it takes long time to show. I want a splash screen that appear immediately (or as fast as possible). Thank you! ...

WPF SplashScreen implementing

Hello, I try to implement Splash Screnn in WPF. I have found some nice ehample in MSDN, but there is one place: private void _applicationInitialize(SplashScreen splashWindow) { Thread.Sleep(1000); // Create the main window, but on the UI thread. Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(DispatcherPriority.Normal, (Invoker)delegate { ...

Windows forms window starting up out of focus (and behind executable folder)

Hi, I'm getting some strange behaviour in the start-up of a Windows app and wondered if anyone could throw any light on what is happening and how to get around it. The problem is with the start-up of the app - it should show a splash screen then a login form. The code for this is: [STAThread] static void Main() { A...

A splash screen which doesnot just disappear but fades in/out.

I have a splash screen which appears for a few seconds before the application home screen is loaded. And then the home screen is pushed in. But I need to fade out the splash screen before the home screen appears. Any idea how to do that?? ...

Crash At Splash Screen, iPhone

Hi there, I have an app which when opened, displays a splash/loading screen. I had this set at 2.5 seconds before the app moved on. - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application { sleep(2.5); [window addSubview:viewController.view]; [window makeKeyAndVisible]; } I now want the app to pause at the splash scre...

Blackberry - close splash screen on any key

I am trying to adapt a piece of existing code. I am trying to remove a timer on a splash screen and change it to "press any key to continue" type screen. I need some help with the push/popscreen logic and listening for a keystroke on the splash screen. Here is extract from the code. public class MenuMain_Pca extends UiApplication { ...

jQuery + Ajax Hash / History and more

Hi there, I am trying to get a handle on using URL hashes in jQuery to control history in Ajax and make links / pages book-markable. I have tried almost every plug-in out there, and I cant seem to get any to work properly, so I dont have any code examples really. But I am open to any suggestions, information, tutorials, etc. The differ...

Splash screen text changes color

I currently have a text box on the bottom portion of my splash screen that displays the last build date. The text color is set to black but for some reason when you run the splash screen the color starts out at black, turns to white and then turns back to black right before the actual program starts. This is only happening on Vista. Does...

Center Java splash screen on multi-monitor

I'm creating a splash screen for a Java application using the SplashScreen class. The problem is that the position on multi-monitor systems is undefined. The documentation states "the position on multi-monitor systems is not specified - it is platform and implementation dependent". The application is going to be used solely on multi-moni...

Android SplashScreen

hi guys... I'm developing an application which basically downloads a lot of data at the start of the application itself and displays it in the ListActivity... wat i m planning to do is show a Splash Screen till the data is loaded... Till now all my attempts have been futile... i tried anddev.org mentioned methods... but my problem is th...

Java 6 Splash Screen

I've never been able to get the Java 6 splash screen to work. I've tried everything I can think of. My manifest.mf contains: Manifest-Version: 1.0 X-COMMENT: Main-Class will be added automatically by build SplashScreen-Image: geotagsplashscreen.gif I put file "geotragsplashscreen.gif" in the root of my source tree, and verify that it...

How to make a splash screen (screen visible when app starts)?

I have a simple application, it starts, loads xml feed from the net, you can browse a list of news and then read details for a chosen news item. What I would like to do is have a splash screen, meaning as soon as you click application, it should display an image (app name in my case) and then display news list only after they've loaded. ...

Iphone Splash Screen

Hey mates, I am really trying to do my best but I can't really find out what's going wrong in my code. I made a lot of search but I guess I just can't understand some objective c basics ;) My first question is related to the code below : [window addSubview:tabBarController.view]; UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"lol.png"]; UII...

Is there a way I can show a short movie intro clip when my iphone app starts?

Is there a way I can show a short movie intro clip when my iphone app starts? There are many apps that have movie intro clip in app store. ...

How to create a splashscreen in silverlight that has a login form (username & password)

I'm building a silverlight applicate thats quite big, it also requires users to login. I'm trying to work how to show a login form (username & password) before the rest of the silverlight application is loaded. So the user will see username & password which they can start entering there information, while the rest of the application is d...

How to Add a Splash Screen or Initial View to the Xcode iPhone Utility Template

I have made an application using the utility template. I want to add one more view when the application launches (like a splash screen.) In this view, I have three buttons. When I press one of the three buttons, the main view of the utility templete will be load. Please help me if possible send code..thanks in advance ...

unexpected delay between splash screen and first view controller

i have a tabbar application. here is my code - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application { [application setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO]; [self showSplashView]; } - (void)showSplashView { //If i don't use black view it displays white screen thats look so bad... UIView* blackView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFra...

Custom Java splash screen "freezes" until the whole application has loaded

I have a program that takes a long time to load. Because of this I wanted to develop a splash screen that can provide feedback to the user on what is being loaded. A simple JFrame with an image, label and JProgressBar. I have been experimenting and the best results I've had are doing this in my main(): SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new ...

How to delay Default.png ?

How can I delay the app loading to show the splash screen for longer? ...