How about an irregular shape like a broken glass window that a baseball went thru?
On Mar 9, 2018 4:18 PM, "Laszlo Kishalmi" <[email protected]> wrote: Well, the current splashscreen implementation is based on an abandoned Java 6 splashscreen feature which is supposed to help the user experience on the slow bootstrap of the JVM. It takes an image from AFAIK bootstrap.jar upon a MANIFEST.MF attribute. The JVM displays that image before even starting anything else, then later on it adds some update support to that splashscreen. See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-67 On 03/09/2018 07:01 AM, Bernd Ruehlicke wrote: > Could be cool with a non rectangular splash. A trick - or rather hack ;-) > to render such a splash without too much brain activity needed and leverage > existing codebase, is to dynamically screendump the rectangular area were > the splash would usually, and draw/copy in the non rectangular feature on > top of that small screendump, then use the usual code to view the now > rectangular splash which will look to the user as a non-rectangular splash > (as long as he or she has not moved the window or got some popups in that > second the whole thing takes). Maybe there is an easier way to make a > non-rectangular splash ? (FX ? but that will include need of much bigger > code change) This would allow to splash the logo only with some number > inside referring to the release version. I know wild idea, but would look > "different". > > > On 3/8/2018 1:48 PM, Javier Ortiz wrote: > >> Yeah, the current one for sure doesn't go along the new logo. Is branding >> part of this first release? >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Geertjan Wielenga < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all! >>> >>> Now that we have a new logo and new website — a next logical step would >>> include a new splash screen. >>> >>> I.e., parallel to the NetCAT program getting started and moving along >>> well, >>> we could propose various splash screen designs, featuring our new logo >>> and >>> maybe some of the styles and colors from the website, followed by a vote >>> thread? >>> >>> Just an idea, >>> >>> Gj >>> >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
