The Art of Dissolving Splash Screens

[Sivakatirswami]

I know I could just use Ken Ray's Stack runner, but I'm interested in the
art of splash screens that load a "mainstack"

I can't get my splash screen to appear and then gracefully
dissolve before showing the main stack (which needs to save data)

In fact, the splash screen stack doesn't even make an appearance
-- which is cool in a way, but if you wanted to the do the "branding"
thing and have it appear a bit before hand... it's not happening.)

What am I doing wrong here? Looks simple enough

local tLocation

on openstack
   put the effective filename of me into tLocation
   set the itemdel to "/"
   delete item -1 of tLocation
   put "/data/Morph-Text.rev" after tLocation
   send "CloseSplash" to me in 2 seconds

end openstack

on closeSplash
   hide this stack with visual effect dissolve
   wait 1 second # adding this wait did not help
   open stack tLocation
end closeSplash


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