CS6 apps: A suggestion for splash screens

Hi. First of all, I couldn't find a more appropiate forum so please feel free to remove or relocate the post if it doesn't go here.
I think that it would be nice to have the splash screens of the next generation of adobe applications pay homage to the great artists that serve as inspiration for us everyday.
I've prepared 3 rough images just as an example. In every case, the letters that represent the program are the initials of the artist that it honours.
Thanks for the space to post this.

Nice idea, but personally I'd have to vote no.
I can't stand splash screens.
I already bought the program and I know what it is...so I definitely don't need to see an 'ad' everytime it launches.
But that's just me.....
Q. Barrie.

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Synchronizing sound and image for splash screen.

Hello all,
I have a peculiar request. ...
I have a sound file (about 137KB) and an animated gif (about 134KB).
I would like to use this as my splash window before my app starts up.
I know how to load these 2 to a screen but my problem is how do I synchronize the sound to go along with the image when it starts up? (Its a gunshot sound, whcih is looped with the animated image showing the bullet holes ;-)
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It seems like the best thing to do is to break up the animated gif into frames (either put each frame in its own file, or place each frame into one large image file and use clip rectangles to retrieve frames) and handle the animation yourself with your own thread. Alternatively, you can use the GifDecoder utility available at http://www.fmsware.com/stuff/gif.html, but be careful when using GifDecoder, it eats up a lot of memory for larger Gif files. When you handle the animation yourself, things should work properly. Again, make sure to cache the images by doing something like:
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Once everything is preloaded, things should be pretty much synchronized if you play the sound and then show the image.
To have more control, you may have to use an object with synchronized methods... like if you want a sound to play on the 3rd and 10th frame of animation. Another option is to use Quicktime for Java.
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Am 10.07.2015 um 07:17 schrieb Lalit Solanki:
> Hi friend,
>
> I am create pure eclipse E4 application and trying to splash screen with progress bar and message.
>
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>
>
> but above image in only support eclipse E3 application so pleas help me how to add progress bar and message in eclipse E4 application
>
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:37:34 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How do i insert a splash screen or a loading screen and a application image for a phone app on Dream
    Re: How do i insert a splash screen or a loading screen and a application image for a phone app on Dream
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RockHunter wrote:
This happens occasionally at inopportune times.
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I made my own a few days before for a database program. It can be easily done with Threads.
I recommend you create a new class to be used as the spalsh screen , it has to extends JFrame and implements Runnable.
I ll give you an example. I used the spash screen to display the screen and also to laod the main GUI form so that when the spash screen dispose, the main GUI form displays instantly, making the user think that the application loads faster.
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}ExecutorService is a subinterface of Executor that declares methods for managing the threads. It also has the method execute (that provides the Executor interface) which when invoked calls the method public void run() of the argument class that must implement Runnable.
Executors.newFixedThreadPool(1); creates a poll consisting of a 1 thread which is been used by splashExecutor to execute the Runnable.
Hope i've been of some assistance!

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