phoenix splash screen?
- saberunit02
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It doesn't seem like adding a splash bmp added any noticeable startup time for me. It's still loads faster than IE on my pc anyways. (sure IE's window loads up fast, but you don't see any content for like ten seconds.) The extra second of startup time doesn't bother me. also, for those complaining about the extra ram a splash screen will suck up, shouldn't you also object to the idea of themes?
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The trick didn't work for me!!
When I put -splash on the end of the target, all I got was the "path is invalid" error message. What am I doing wrong.
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Making commands work in Windows
In your shortcut, put "C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\phoenix\phoenix.exe" "-splash"
This works.
Also if there are more commands, each needs a set of quotes of its own, e.g.--
"C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" "-p" "profile name"
This also works.
This works.
Also if there are more commands, each needs a set of quotes of its own, e.g.--
"C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" "-p" "profile name"
This also works.
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Splash screen!
Made this one really quick in PS for all you splash screen lovers. However, the splash screen didn't show up for me with Phoenix 20021119 on XP =(. Tried with everything that've been suggested in this thread.
BTW, Lim Chee Aun made the icon, in case someone isn't aware of that yet.
<img src="http://members.chello.se/aden/splash.png">
Download:
<a href="http://members.chello.se/aden/splash.png">.PNG</a>
<a href="http://members.chello.se/aden/splash.bmp">.BMP</a>
<a href="http://members.chello.se/aden/splash.psd">.PSD</a>
BTW, Lim Chee Aun made the icon, in case someone isn't aware of that yet.
<img src="http://members.chello.se/aden/splash.png">
Download:
<a href="http://members.chello.se/aden/splash.png">.PNG</a>
<a href="http://members.chello.se/aden/splash.bmp">.BMP</a>
<a href="http://members.chello.se/aden/splash.psd">.PSD</a>
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I tried the -splash trick and
it just give me the "invalid path for shortcut" error what am I doing wrong.
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Never mind I had a brain f*rt
got it now, thank you and thanks for the pic (Very Nice).
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djst wrote:I wouldn't be at all surprised if the developers remove this feature eventually, because the code that checks for phoenix.bmp probably slows down the startup process a bit. Or let me rephrase that: I <i>hope</i> that the developers remove this, because I just want Phoenix to start as fast as possible!
If it checks for the bmp only if there's -splash option present, than it's not going to check if you don't suply the option and it starts instantly.
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kliklik wrote:djst wrote:I wouldn't be at all surprised if the developers remove this feature eventually, because the code that checks for phoenix.bmp probably slows down the startup process a bit. Or let me rephrase that: I <i>hope</i> that the developers remove this, because I just want Phoenix to start as fast as possible!
If it checks for the bmp only if there's -splash option present, than it's not going to check if you don't suply the option and it starts instantly.
Correct. It will still check for the -splash switch though.
I'm sure it takes a whole millisecond and a few lines of code
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djst wrote:kliklik wrote:djst wrote:I wouldn't be at all surprised if the developers remove this feature eventually, because the code that checks for phoenix.bmp probably slows down the startup process a bit. Or let me rephrase that: I <i>hope</i> that the developers remove this, because I just want Phoenix to start as fast as possible! :)
If it checks for the bmp only if there's -splash option present, than it's not going to check if you don't suply the option and it starts instantly.
Correct. It will still check for the -splash switch though.
I'm sure it takes a whole millisecond and a few lines of code :)
If checking for a commandline switch takes a whole millisecond, they're doing something wrong.
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Hi, I'm new to the forums and I've been using Phoenix 0.4 for a lil over a month...
I was pondering the user interface and (like most everyone else here) think it's great. For me, splash screens fall in the great wide gray between "good" and "bad" of the fast/efficient/friendly ideals for user interfaces. I think I agree with a Splash Screen extension. If it really confuses you when the computer is too slow to instantly start Phoenix... install an extension!
In any case, it's very early here and I was inspired:
<img src="http://jeff.jteers.net/splash2.png" width=400 height=100 border=0>
I hope someone will think it's pretty besides me
I was pondering the user interface and (like most everyone else here) think it's great. For me, splash screens fall in the great wide gray between "good" and "bad" of the fast/efficient/friendly ideals for user interfaces. I think I agree with a Splash Screen extension. If it really confuses you when the computer is too slow to instantly start Phoenix... install an extension!
In any case, it's very early here and I was inspired:
<img src="http://jeff.jteers.net/splash2.png" width=400 height=100 border=0>
I hope someone will think it's pretty besides me