Re: [Pythoncard-users] Loading/splash screens

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On 30/12/05 01:22, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> I don't know if this is a solution or not .... but I've always noticed 
> that the wxPython demo gets the splashscreen up there pretty quickly, 
> and then the real window follows a while later.
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I'd forgotten about the demo...wxPython (and wx in general) is still a 
bit of a blind spot for me. But the splashscreen part looks pretty 
straightforward.

> That may or may not help - depends how much time is just getting the 
> base interpreter up and going.

Quite a large proportion of the loading by the look of it. The demo 
splashscreen takes an age to appear on my cold-booted NT box (Pentium 3 
700MHz, 640MB RAM, 5400rpm ATA/100 drive...not an unusual spec. for 
where I have to distribute my application).

> If that doesn't help, you might consider a lightweight "main" program 
> (not in Python) which simply displays the splashscreen and then runs the 
> real app ... there are certainly shareware apps that do this, and a 
> thorough search may well find a freeware one (for Windows - probably 
> also for Mac or Linux but I don't know)
> 
> See http://www.intrepidmouse.com/products/ssm/index.asp for a shareware 
> example.

I'm an old school C programmer and had considered creating a "stub" that 
launches a py2exe/McMillan installer-created Python executable. It was a 
bit of a last resort though ;-)

Thanks for the pointers
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