December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 25m
English
The SplashScreenManager is a service manager class that controls the appearance of an application splash screen, the definition of which can also be used in the display of an application's About window. The splash screen is an optional framework component displayed to the user for a period of time after he or she has successfully logged on to a framework-based application. In the client/server architecture, such a design is typically used as a means of distracting the user from the delay in opening the application frame caused by loading the code into memory on the computer. In the Curl client/Web environment, this design pattern is still appropriate as it gives the user something to look at while the Curl files are downloaded ...