Installing new software

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/29/12 2:49 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> Thanks for the suggestion. That would work but I'm just not a big fan of
> the "splash stack" approach in general unless there's a genuine (at least
> in my opinion!) reason for having one, like an extended amount of time to
> initialise the program.  In this case, I'd rather delay the user every time
> they run the program with a splash stack if the only reason for it is to
> deal with a situation that happens infrequently.

It doesn't have to actually display or wait. It can be set invisible on 
preopenstack and go immediately to the main stack. Then when you do an 
update, you could show it so the user has something to look at, and add 
a progress bar too if you want.

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