Animated Splash Screen Topic is solved

[JohnD]

1st question:
My app does quite a bunch of code before the top-frame is created. Do I need to redesign in order to throw up a splash screen while this work is going on, or can I create a random window whenever I want, even in the App constructor?

2nd part:
If I have an animated gif, how painful would it be to have the splash screen display this while the app is chugging on the CPU at startup?

[JimFairway]

Hi John,

I think you could do either/or.
See http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxsplashscreen.html for the splash screen, it shows an example at the top.

If you want to show a gif animation, you would need to construct your own window at start up and put the animation in it.
See the animation example wx/samples/animate. I suspect you would have to call wxYield() during your initialization from time to time to make the animation work.
See http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxanimation.html

Hope that helps,

Jim

[orbitcowboy]

Hi John,

I think you could do either/or.
See http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxsplashscreen.html for the splash screen, it shows an example at the top.

If you want to show a gif animation, you would need to construct your own window at start up and put the animation in it.
See the animation example wx/samples/animate. I suspect you would have to call wxYield() during your initialization from time to time to make the animation work.
See http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxanimation.html

Hope that helps,

Jim

Have you created an animated wxSplashscreen? I intend to do the same and do not intend to invent the wheel on my own

Best regards

Orbitcowboy

[JohnD]

Have you created an animated wxSplashscreen? I intend to do the same and do not intend to invent the wheel on my own

Best regards

Orbitcowboy

I'm afraid not, we decided on a static image using the wxSplashScreen functionality.

[orbitcowboy]

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Have you created an animated wxSplashscreen? I intend to do the same and do not intend to invent the wheel on my own

Best regards

Orbitcowboy

I'm afraid not, we decided on a static image using the wxSplashScreen functionality.

Ok, thank you for your quick response.

Best regards

Orbitcowboy