AW: The Art of Dissolving Splash Screens

Scott Kane scott at cdroo.com
Fri Jun 29 09:24:08 EDT 2007


From: "Stephen Barncard" <stephenREVOLUTION at barncard.com>

> Except in Windoze the user SEES the folder right there... right?  On the 
> mac, you at least have to know how to open up a package and most users 
> don't or don't care.

Yep.  That's why there are applications on the Mac for extracting picture 
resources from the packages.  <g>  Of course on Windows you need a tool to 
do that because there is no OS supplied method of hacking executables 
(beyond WordPad <g>).

>  That's a big difference to me and I would think to the users, and not the 
> same thing. And when you double click a Win folder, you see the contents, 
> not start the app. Wouldn't an uninformed user have the dpossibility to 
> move the startup exe separately from the folder?

Yep.  It works exactly as you state and it's a pointless exercise really - 
but even programmers forget sometimes that what we work with and assume are 
not really what we're working with - really, kinda, sorta, some-what - ya 
know?   ;-)


Scott Kane 




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