Re: [Gretl-users] Re: The Splash Screen is here
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, John C Frain wrote:
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.
I have to say I'm persuaded by this argument.
However, I have a "compromise" to propose. If Talha (or anyone)
can come up with a really nice and suitable image, I'll rework
the "About gretl" item so that it is spash-like -- that is, the
whole window is an image, no border stuff, dismisses on a
mouse-click (see gnumeric, or Acroread). And in addition I'll
set things up so that the user sees this on start-up if it's the
first use of gretl, or the first use of an updated version of
gretl.
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 "script editor"
That's not a bad idea, I'll think about it.
Allin.