startup delay

[Herbert Thoma]

Dan Widyono schrieb:
> Hi!  Very nice.  One question: I only see in the patch that you removed
> several gnc_destroy_splash_screen() calls.  I have not read the full code, so
> I am assuming there is a call to gnc_destroy_splash_screen() somewhere else
> that will get called once all the reports are rendered?

Yes, the splash screen gets destroyed in the function inner_main()
in src/bin/gnucash-bin.c

 Herbert.

> Dan W.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:09:13PM +0200, Herbert Thoma wrote:
>> Herbert Thoma schrieb:
>>> Derek Atkins schrieb:
>> <...>
>>>> Hmm, that's a good point..  The reason this change got made was
>>>> because it was visually unappealing to have the window show up
>>>> before it's fully drawn.  It winds up resizing itself multiple
>>>> times and then relocates itself.  So the idea was to delay the
>>>> visibility until it's done, and the splash screen would show you
>>>> that something is happening.
>>> The problem is that the splash screen disappears after about 10 seconds but the
>>> main window only appears a lot later. So a solution would be to really show the
>>> splash screen until the main window shows up (and displaying something like
>>> "rendering report <report name>" in the status line of the splash screen).
>> OK, this itch was sufficiently annoying to scratch (and the scratching
>> was easy enough to do).
>>
>> I attached a patch to bug #457944
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457944
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=92921&action=view
>>
>> keep splash screen during file loading
>> - do not destroy the splash screen during file loading
>> - display which reports are rendered in the progress field of the splash screen
>>
>> Please review.
>>
>>  Herbert.
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Herbert Thoma
Head of Video Group
Multimedia Realtime Systems Department
Fraunhofer IIS
Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Phone: +49-9131-776-323
Fax:   +49-9131-776-399
email: tma at iis.fhg.de
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