AW: The Art of Dissolving Splash Screens

[Richard Gaskin]

Tiemo Hollmann wrote:

> Just for my interest, what is the advantage of using a separate splash stack
> instead of using a splash card or splash image/graphic in mainstack? There
> must be some, which I don't see.

There's a million different ways to structure an app in Rev.  For 
myself, I use the mainstack only to boot the app, and the only UI it has 
is an error dialog notifying the user of a problem on boot.  Once the 
boot is successful I hide that window and move on to the splash, and 
eventually the document window or welcome screen, depending on the app.

I do this because if all else fails at boot, the app's mainstack will 
become visible and be sitting there in front of the user anyway.  So 
using it as a boot error dialog allows it to do something meaningful in 
the event of a worst-case boot error, and if there is no error then 
everything just moves forward as normal.

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