Splash

Description

Short story: What I consider the "correct way" to start up an application from Sub Main, showing a Splash screen to distract the user while you're initializing the main form.

Longer description from old site: click here.

To be edited...

Published

This sample, or the one from which it originally derived, was published (or at least peripherally mentioned) in the following article(s):

What if the User's Left-Handed?, Ask the VB Pro, Getting Started with VB, 2000

APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module Library Function

FAbout.frm shell32
user32

ShellExecute
GetSystemMenu
GetWindowRect
RemoveMenu
SetCursorPos

Don't see what you're looking for? Here's a complete API cross-reference.

Module	Library	Function
FAbout.frm	shell32 user32	ShellExecute GetSystemMenu GetWindowRect RemoveMenu SetCursorPos

Download

Please, enjoy and learn from this sample. Include its code within your own projects, if you wish. But, in order to insure only the most recent code is available to all, I ask that you don't share the sample by any form of mass distribution.
Download Splash.zip, 26Kb, Last Updated: Sunday, September 5, 1999