Splash screen for application

[JB]

 How many developers are using a splash screen for their applications ? Shouldn't this be a straightforward task even for beginners ? NI should provide an easier way to implement this technique.

[Intaris]

Yes, Yes and Yes.

[altenbach]

Should the configured splash screen also act as "help..about" screen by default?

Probably yes! 🙂

[waldemar.hersacher]

Your splash screens and About is very different.

On the splash screen we have a nice product logo and a tiny string indicater where you can see which modules are loading.

The About has a lot of aditional information which is not availabale when starting the application. We have manufactorer information, version information of each loaded module which you can save as a file.

Our Splash screen is the toplevelVI of the app. This VI will load and start a general loader VI which implements a Factory design pattern. Additional it waits for incoming messages on a named queue for displaying strings in its indicator, hidding itself or exiting.

Creating such a pattern is a one time task. We such need to change the picture on the front panel of the splash screen. I think this could be integrated in the templates used by the File >> New... dialog.

[rex1030]

Great idea, please implement.

[Vannystick]

This would be an excellent idea, i've spent hours working on a 'nice' splash screen, why can't we have one 'out of the box'?

[Vladiator]

It's not too late to implement it, NI......!