Splash screens and Modal

Question

Hi
There is a splash screen dislayed as my Application is loading in the background ( it's a company specific thing). The problem is, I want a popup when the either the application is complete or the creation complete. However no matter where I call the popup form, it does not receive the focus and is not tabbable.
I tried setting a timeout : setTimeout(popupLogOnDlg,4000);
THe problem is that different browsers seem to have different load times of the splash screen or how the flex chain of events is handled. In IE9, Firefox 10.02 there is no problem when I set it to 3000, it appears right after the splash screen. However in IE8 and Chrome it is appearing too early.
Can anyone help with figuring out how I can  ge tthis working across all the browsers or a better way to have it implemented.

Answer 1

In wpf a splash screen is actually a picture file.
Or at least that's the usual way to do this.
Add a jpg, png or whatever to your Project.
On the Properties:
Build Action.
Select SplashScreen.
Now when you f5 your picture will appear before the MainWindow.
I guess if you already have a MainWindow there then this must definitely be a WPF csproj you have there.
Drop to a command prompt and try:
devenv /installvstemplates
If that doesn't work then try creating a new wpf solution.
Can you create new windows in that?
If you can then the most likely explanation is your csproj in your old solution is corrupted.  Either compare the two using notepad and fix your original one manually.
Or... Just copy your one window you had into the new solution.
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