That's why I requested that since a long time from the packager because a splash has to be part of the native launcher created.
The Eclipse-RCP-Launcher does exactly the right thing: * Show a static image (IIRC they use bmp) * Once the VM and UI-Toolkit is up replace that image with a window (SWT calls it Shell) so that you can go interactive showing videos, a progressbar, ... Tom On 03.06.18 10:11, Mario Ivankovits wrote: > A preloader/splash-screen will/should also hide the JVM startup time. > > Best regards, > Mario > > >> Am 03.06.2018 um 09:57 schrieb Tom Schindl <tom.schi...@bestsolution.at>: >> >> On 01.06.18 19:42, Johan Vos wrote: >>> I'm not saying a preloader is really a requirement, but I know of a few >>> applications that are using it and benefiting from it. >>> >>> The preloader functionality is more than just a splash screen, and I see >>> this valuable for instance when static initializers of classes that are >>> used in the main class may take a lot of time. >> >> Then I'd argue that you can easily refactor your main-class ;-) >> >> Tom >
