on 1/31/00 12:32 AM, H. Chaudet at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Can someone point me in the right direction for creating a splash
>> screen that shows briefly, then disappears to reveal the main screen
>> of an application. I've created a small stack as the splash, to
>> which I've added the other stacks as substacks.
I usually do this backwards, using the mainstack in the way that
SuperTalkers use an "anchor window", since the mainstack has the valuable
role of serving as the equivalent of SuperCard's "project" object (the
mainstack script is shared by all sof its substacks).
Before using the xworlds exporter, I usually save myself some time and
trouble and make an empty window in my SC project and copy the project
script there in SuperEdit, and then run the xworlds exporter on this new
version, so it keeps my translated object model as close as it can be.
For splash screens, when I use 'em I often make 'em a substack, as the loast
poster does. But lately I'm even having issues with that: My plan was to
put up a splash screen first to give the user something to look at while my
app is loading - the problem is that MC is often so fast that the splash
screen appears only momentarily, requiring that I add an additional wait to
make it less visuall disturbing, but adding a wait into a boot sequence just
feels unclean in a Microsoft sort of way (remember that old joke C source
file floating around listing the Win98 boot sequence?). :)
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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