On 22 Apr 2009, at 17:06:10, Chris Williams wrote:
So you'd rather the user sits there wondering if this huge, highly
complex
application (like any Office or Adobe app) that takes 10-15 seconds
to load,
even longer on a slow laptop, is actually starting up, or should I
click it
again, or is my computer dead, or "what the heck is going on here"...?
Splash screens serve a purpose other than advertising. No program I
know of
actually delays the load to show the splash screen. Rather, they
are a
prettier way of saying "loading...".
I have an application that connects to a SQL server. The app itself
isn't a
slow loader, but the connection to the SQL server (often on another
computer
or on hard drives that may be asleep) can take 5, 10, or more
seconds to
establish. The splash screen shows that progress and let's the user
know
what things are being done. Far better than a spinning beach ball.
Yes, but the vast majority of applications do not take that long to
load. It may be a prettier way of saying "Loading...", but unless it's
got an actual progress bar on it it's just aggravating. I'll also
throw in here that I have seen splash screens that have a higher
window level than normal. This is just wrong. If you're app takes long
enough to load to warrant a splash screen, it takes long enough to
load for the user to get impatient and try to do something else.
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