[Pythoncard-users] Loading/splash screens

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Hmmm...a chicken-and-egg problem...and a bit OT.

Some of my PythonCard apps run on fairly old hardware, with the result 
that the Python interpreter/runtime takes a while to start up with 
nothing apparently happening as far as the user is concerned. A loading 
splash screen would be good, but if this was summoned from 
Python/PythonCard/wxPython then it would happen too late.

Has anybody done any brainstorming on this and come up with a solution, 
or is anyone aware of one? I remember hearing on a podcast recently that 
  a future version of Java will load some basic functionality ahead of 
the JVM to allow splash screens to be drawn early on, when an 
application is run that requires the JVM to be loaded. I don't think 
Python allows anything like this, though I'd love to be proved wrong.

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