[GRASS-dev] splash screen image comes up too late [Re: Planning GRASS GIS 7.0.0RC2]

[Moritz Lennert]

On 07/02/15 10:12, Martin Landa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-02-06 19:56 GMT+01:00 Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>:
>> Although this example will work fine, it overlooks the main reason
>> programmers add a splash screen; to give the user feedback while a program
>> is loading.
>
> this is right.
>
>> It first displays splash screen for 1 second and then start to load the main
>> frame. So this would basically make the gui start even longer.
>> I don't have problems as you describe so it's difficult to test anything. I
>
> Same here, I wonder if to go back to the previous version of splashscreen.

I don't think that the splash screen significantly slows down the start 
of the GUI, but to solve that issue, if something like wx.Yield() does 
not work, it seems that the general recommendation is threading, so that 
the program can load in a separate thread.


>
>> still don'y understand, did you have the same problems with the old splash
>> screen?
>
> I also didn't understand that. Martin
>

Yes, sorry, I see that I wasn't clear: I'm having the same problem with 
all versions of GRASS. I don't know if this is related to wxpython 3 ? 
Maybe wx.Yield() is handled differently now ?

I don't really know for how long this problem has existed, I've just 
become conscious of it through the discussions on the new splash screen.

But if I'm really the only one with the issue, maybe something's wrong 
in my config.

Moritz