On approximately 7/5/2004 3:50 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Dean Arnold:
After building a standalone of a fairly large DBI+Tk app (resulting .exe is 5.7 MBytes), the first execution is pretty lengthy. Is there anyway to open a splash screen for that initial load ? I realize you need Perl plus some GUI modules loaded before PAR could even try to run a BEGIN script, but is there any way to order the unpacking so the modules needed for a simple splashscreen get unpacked first, then display the splash while the remaining unpack/compile operations proceed ?
Maybe splash screen, a common enough operation, should be a PAR feature?
Either with a new switch, or if a file named splash.bmp or splash.jpg or something exists (PAR implementers can figure the details), then it is displayed mid-screen ASAP, while the rest of the unpacking proceeds.
-- Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ =========================== The best part about procrastination is that you are never bored, because you have all kinds of things that you should be doing.
