splash-screen

iPhone Web App splash screen delay

I've built an iPhone web app and have done all the steps to make it look like a native app: app icon, prevent scrolling, prevent selection, use touch-based js methods, etc. However, I'm having a tough time with the splash screen. I have tried a 320x460 PNG and JPEG, cached with a manifest file. The splash image does appear, but only aft...

Splash screen does not return focus to main form.

I everyone. I currently have a problem with my focus when using a splash screen. I am using VS2008, with .NET framework 2.0. Also, I have linked my project with the VisualBasic.dll since I use the ApplicationServices to manage my single instance app and splash screen. Here is a code snippet simplified of what I tried debugging. namespa...

MessageBox with exception details immediately disappears if use splash screen in WPF 4.0

My desktop-based WPF-application (4.0) works with DB and in order to this it should establish a connection with SQL Server on application's startup. Of course, this operation takes some time and user have to wait some seconds (3-5) while .Net Framework start and connect to SQL Server. As appropriate in such kind of cases I decided to us...

How to adapt my current splash screen to allow other pieces of my code to run in the background?

Currently I have a splash screen in place. However, it does not work as a real splash screen - as it halts the execution of the rest of the code (instead of allowing them to run in the background). This is the current (reduced) arquitecture of my program, with the important bits displayed in full. How can I adapt the splash screen curr...

Is there a way to show a splash screen for WPF application?

Dupe: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3677653/wpf-animated-splash-screen I would like to show a splash screen for my WPF application. what I want to do is to show it while I load dictionary from a file (it takes about 5-6 seconds to load). Is there a way to achieve this in WPF? I would appreciate some tutorial, since this is a littl...

Correct colour display of Default.png on iPhone

I'm using the Default.png method to create a splashscreen. I'm using the same file for my background and the Default.png (except default.png has the 20 pixel status bar at the top). However, the iphone isn't displaying them in them the same. The Default.png is being displayed darker than the background, so it's painfully obvious when th...