Custom Splash Screen for HTML Export?

We're finding our customers are getting confused with the HTML screen that initally displays a single button to play our Captivate lessons. Is there any way inside Captivate to add some context to that screen?
TIA
Retiarius

Hello,
I read your postings here and I did what you proposed.
Nevertheless the splash screen doesn't show up.
I'm using Java 1.4.1, Web Start 1.2; the jnlp file
looks like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jnlp codebase="http://venus/example-client/" href="example.jnlp">
<information>
<title>Example</title>
<vendor>My Company/vendor>
<description>JBoss Client</description>
<icon href="splashscreen.jpg" kind="splash" />
</information>
<security>
<all-permissions/>
</security>
<resources>
<j2se version="1.4+"/>
<jar href="example-client.jar" main="true"/>
<jar href="jbosssx-client.jar"/>
<jar href="concurrent.jar"/>
<jar href="jboss-client.jar"/>
<jar href="jboss-common-client.jar"/>
<jar href="jboss-j2ee.jar"/>
<jar href="jnp-client.jar"/>
<jar href="log4j.jar"/>
<jar href="datepicker.jar"/>
<jar href="jcommon-0.7.1.jar"/>
<jar href="jfreechart-0.9.4.jar"/>
<jar href="xercesImpl.jar"/>
<jar href="xml-apis.jar"/>
<jar href="xalan.jar"/>
<property name="java.security.auth.login.config" value="http://venus/example-client/auth.conf"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="com.mycompany.ui.Example"/>
</jnlp>
any idea why webstart doesn't use the custom "splashscreen.jpg"?
a properly splashXXXXX.jpg has been created in .javaws/cache/splashes, as well as an entry in splash.xml.
thanx for help,
michael

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I have also separately packaged the ArchPool and ArchMetal themes but I will have to upload them later because I forgot them today
Problems and Bugs
I am having MAJOR problems with the splash rc.d script. It uses the conf.d/splash config file fine but i still CANNOT get it to work at boot BEFORE i log in - it works fine after - ideas PLEASE!
It now also seems to cause similar overlay problems to that are described in bug 2 below – with SOME themes you get a persistent progress bar on your vc after the boot process is finished and it seems to affect different themes depending on when you run the script in your daemons array – am baffled – it needs serious work! Bug 2 and this maybe related...more testing needed!
Last but not least - the bkgdDaemons patch. If we background a daemon how do we know if it failed or not? Has anyone thought of that? My initscripts consider a background daemon BKGD to be DONE for the purposes of displaying the progress bar although the bkgdDaemons patch functionality remains identical and BKGD still shows in verbose. If a BKGD daemon fails, this maybe as late as after login for DHCP failures, for example, we'll never know until we try to use the network.
Bugs
1. When udev starts you get message saying can't open /dev/fb0 and /dev/fbsplash for reading – no apparent ill effects tho? [FIXED]
2. If you switch to verbose with F2 at a very specific point – during the fs check I think – the background MIGHT corrupt a tiny bit as the verbose overlays the silent (correctly) but then when the fs check finishes I think it still thinks it is in silent mode (due to the mode being passed to it when it starts to execute) and overlays silent again – only for the next rc script to overlay verbose (again correctly). It's hardly terrible but someone might like to have a look – I can't be bothered right now as there is very little need to switch to verbose with F2 (cos it does it automatically on errors) and you do have to do it at just the right second to get the problem! Feel free to check it out tho.
TODO:
1) workaround the current symlink workaround – DONE (don't ask it was awful)
2) figure out how to drop out of silent if errors occur at startup - DONE
3) fix that f**king rc.d script – - SOMETIMES WORKS SOMETIMES NOT -SETTING IT AS THE LAST DAEMON SEEMS TO HELP
4) investigate the bugs - DONE
5) enable silent splash in ArchMetal – DONE
6) make lots of nice gensplash screens for Arch! – EVERYONE!

Looking for a Splash screen for desktop login

Thats it, I have been looking for a splash screen application that can make a splash appear since my login begins with SLIM and that disappears once all startup applications have been loaded.
I tried plymouth, but I think it cannot be used for this purpose.
Any recommendation for this? Thanks.

Do you mean you want a splash screen from the time when you complete logging in with Slim to the time the desktop has finished loading? If that is taking more than just a few seconds then I suggest you change desktops to something lighterweight. Mine takes about 2 seconds (wmii) - not even enough time for a splash scree!. Are you using KDE or Gnome because I believe you can set a startup splash with both those DE's . Check their documentation. Also, show us your ~/.xinitrc .

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