One of the delights of Gretl is the speed at which it loads.  Even on an old 400 Mh PC loading is instantaneous.  A splash screen may tell one that something is happening for a program that takes time to load (e.g. Texmacs or Jabref).  For a splash screen to be effective one would have to slow down loading Gretl and I do not think this is a good idea.
<br><br>One small suggestion about the interface (for consideration for some future version) would be to allow a user to step through a script line by line from the &quot;script&nbsp; editor&quot;<br><br>John C Frain<br>&nbsp;<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Riccardo Jack Lucchetti</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:r.lucchetti@univpm.it">r.lucchetti@univpm.it</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Wed, July 19, 2006 19:15, Talha Yalta wrote:<br><br>&gt; I want to do this the way &quot;you&quot; guys want it to be. I want it to be<br>&gt; something everyone likes. I can change everything or even throw out<br>
&gt; the whole idea (even though I think its charming). Just give me some<br>&gt; directions.<br><br>Why don't you use the &quot;About&quot; box (Help/About gretl) as a starting point? I'd<br>quite like that as a splash screen already, with some extra work it could make
<br>for a very nice one.<br><br><br>Riccardo &quot;Jack&quot; Lucchetti<br>Dipartimento di Economia<br>Facoltā di Economia &quot;G. Fuā&quot;<br>Ancona<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gretl-users mailing list
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John C Frain