splash screen possibilities ?

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Yep, the wx.SplashScreen does not try to shape the window to anything other than the rectangle of the image.

By accident (putting another picture in the splashscreen ),
I discovered that's very well possible to create a shaped splashscreen,
with the standard splashscreen, :wink: see attachment.
But I've no idea what the requirements for the image are :frowning:
I only added the style parameter in the SplashScreen, to get rid of the border of the window.

class My_App(wx.App):

  def OnInit(self):
    bmp = wx.Image ('Vippi_Bricks.png', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_ANY).ConvertToBitmap()
    wx.SplashScreen ( bmp,
                      wx.SPLASH_CENTRE_ON_SCREEN | wx.SPLASH_TIMEOUT,
                      10000, None,
                      style = wx.NO_BORDER | wx.SIMPLE_BORDER | wx.STAY_ON_TOP )
    wx.Yield ()
    return True

I also tried AdvancedSplash from Andrea,
which looks really awfull, but ...

In what way?

- Shaped splashscreens ( ok we can do now with normal splashscreen too)
- nice way to set transparency, even if there's no transparency layer
- scrolling text during the splash showing ( I now looked into the code and I think it's delaying everything, so after all not so nice)

cheers,
Stef

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Hi Stef,

>> I also tried AdvancedSplash from Andrea,
>> which looks really awfull, but ...
>
> In what way?
- Shaped splashscreens ( ok we can do now with normal splashscreen too)
- nice way to set transparency, even if there's no transparency layer
- scrolling text during the splash showing ( I now looked into the code
and I think it's delaying everything, so after all not so nice)

Uhm, usually "awful" means something bad/ugly/annoying/boring, so it's
not very clear to me what you intended...
Anyway, I have never used the scrolling text feature of AdvncedSplash,
and it's been a while since I looked at the source code, but I use
AdvancedSplash for all my applications which require more than 2
seconds to load (usually because of matplotlib/numpy/scipy
dependencies).

Andrea.

"Imagination Is The Only Weapon In The War Against Reality."
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/

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On Nov 18, 2007 12:11 PM, Stef Mientki wrote:

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hi Andrea,

Andrea Gavana wrote:

Hi Stef,

I also tried AdvancedSplash from Andrea,
which looks really awfull, but ...
        

In what way?
      

- Shaped splashscreens ( ok we can do now with normal splashscreen too)
- nice way to set transparency, even if there's no transparency layer
- scrolling text during the splash showing ( I now looked into the code
and I think it's delaying everything, so after all not so nice)
    
Uhm, usually "awful" means something bad/ugly/annoying/boring, so it's
not very clear to me what you intended...
  

Well my English isn't too well, but I thought awful was one of those English words,
that can mean exactly the opposite ?
But let me phrase it in simple words: I found your AdvancedSplashScreen really nice and cool.

thanks,
Stef

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On Nov 18, 2007 12:11 PM, Stef Mientki wrote:

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awesome, or awe-inspiring

Karsten

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On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 01:18:12PM +0100, Stef Mientki wrote:

Well my English isn't too well, but I thought awful was one of those
English words,
that can mean exactly the opposite ?
But let me phrase it in simple words: I found your AdvancedSplashScreen
really nice and cool.

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