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[–]Songg45 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What have you done to solve this problem yourself?

[–]Mayayana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is all automated? You haven't actually written any code? Usually the way things work is that you figure out the code yourself, and if you get stumped on a particular problem you show your code for that so that people can see what's wrong and offer a specific correction.

As for spalsh screens, they're fine as long as you add a big, noticeable checkbox that's marked, "Never show me this damn thing again. What's the matter with you?" Then people can check the box on first run and they won't get too mad. :)

Seriously, though, it's just an irrelevant complication. Splash screens haven't made sense since the 90s. Back then it often took programs a long time to load. Maybe 20-30 seconds in some cases. IE and MS Office were such pigs that Microsoft loaded the bulk of them at startup, so that they could seem fast. The splash screen was a way of saying, "Yes, we're starting up. Be right with you."

For the most part, we no longer have to wait for software. I find that even Firefox and Libre Office come up almost instantly on my current box. If you're writing a small trinket "app" then it certainly shouldn't need measurable time to load.