Splash Screen plugin

[Thief]

It even require some updates as code changes, so it not independent... Anyway it was just a suggestion.
I think that shold be better choice for users, but it is Your plugin, so... :)

Well, code updates were needed to use new graphics library, it has nothing to do with sound playback. So please don't presume things you know a little about.

I'll wait for that debug build You announced in previous posts.
It may be just minor problem, or it may be core problem too.. So I think that investigation of this crash is required.

Try with these debug symbols, hopefuly the crashlog will shed some light.
http://thief.miranda-im.org.ua/AdvSplashScreen.pdb.zip

[Faith Healer]

It even require some updates as code changes, so it not independent... Anyway it was just a suggestion.
I think that shold be better choice for users, but it is Your plugin, so... :)

I suppose all the users should thank you for giving those permissions to Thief for doing that, haha.

[nullbie]

It is actually startup for me even if I use dbx_3x, which starts incredible slow with my 50mb+ DB. Just made a test. With dbx_mmap sound starts playing when splash screen stop fading in. About 1-1.5 sec after miranda start. With dbx_3x it was a bit later. Like 3 sec. Which is not a big deal for me (I have fadein:20 delay:5000 fadeout:3)
So I think it is not a real difference, when and how sound playing.

In fact current Splash Screen design was my idea. Let me explain why I decided to start it before you can use services.

I must state that database loading time usually doesn't depend on its size since we don't parse all the file, just headers and some small linked chains. Also this is done before SplashScreen can theoretically appear. (Well, we are not going to implement DB interface in Splash Screen, are we? :) ) Currently the slowest part of startup is plugin initialization which may take few seconds depending on what installed plugins do in their Load() are and how slow computer is.

Well... You can rename splash screeen to something like "!!!!!!!!!!!!!aaaa_Splash.dll" to ensure that being loaded in alphabetical order it will start first, but personally I dislike this way of resolving such problems :)

Also I thought that showing image during first round of Miranda startup, makes it possible to provide interface for plugins (not service-base of cource) so they can show what's loading at the moment. Must note that this is not implemented yet, and AFAIK no atempts were made.

[eblis]

\Also I thought that showing image during first round of Miranda startup, makes it possible to provide interface for plugins (not service-base of cource) so they can show what's loading at the moment. Must note that this is not implemented yet, and AFAIK no atempts were made.

I might have an idea how it could be made if anyone is interested :)

[ANR Daemon]

I'm not that interested. I just have this plugin installed for one specific splash found in collection. And that's all for me.
But I have general interest in Miranda progress.
It looks like last project which still have good progress. (all other projects in which I have interest, now dead or quickly degrades)

[nullbie]

I might have an idea how it could be made if anyone is interested :)

FindWindowEx + SendMessage :)

[Thief]

I might have an idea how it could be made if anyone is interested :)

sure, go on :)

[Faith Healer]

(all other projects in which I have interest, now dead or quickly degrades)

maybe then you'll be interested in QIP? :-)

[JOJO]

Not showing version number on splash screen. Option is marked in settings.

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9] [2 CPUs]
Installed RAM: 2047 MBytes
Operating System: Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate [version: 6.0.6000 ]
Shell: explorer.exe, Internet Explorer 7.0.6000
Administrator privileges: Yes
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Free disk space on Miranda partition: 24946 MBytes
Miranda path: C:\Program Files\Miranda IM
Miranda IM version: 0.7.0 alpha build #28 Unicode
Build time: 20:03:35 on 20 May 2007
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Profile creation date: 06 Dec 2006 at 08:57:29
Language pack: Bulgarian (BG) [0402] v. N/A, modified: 09 Aug 2006 at 20:30:54
Nightly: Yes
Unicode core: Yes

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[eblis]

FindWindowEx + SendMessage :)

sure, go on :)

Hmm, i was thinking it could show the plugin that's currently loading without the plugin having to have any support for Splash Screen.
I haven't looked at the code so i don't know for sure if it's possible or not.
When the plugin receives it's PLUGINLINK structure it could replace the CreateServiceFunction function with it's own. Then when a plugin calls that function it passes through SplashScreen which can use the service name string address to find the originating module and display that as the currently loading plugin.
You'd still have to keep the overrided function in place even after Spash Screen finished displaying the splash window though. There are some plugins that save a copy of that structure and would call your function even though you replaced it back in the original PLUGINLINK.