I want to make a screen that is displaying the message Login in a label while all the components are loading in a form.When i execute the game it stays in blank screen for about 5 seconds before showing all the design so i want it to load until it is fully loaded.
Just create a new "splash screen" form that you hide when loading is complete. Don't display your current form until loading is complete.
This is one way to do it:
Initialize and show the splash window
Initialize but keep the main window hidden
When main window is fully loaded, show it and close the splash window
There is a lot of sample code out there, just google for it. Some links:
http://crazorsharp.blogspot.se/2009/06/creating-splash-screen-in-net-with.html
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5454/A-Pretty-Good-Splash-Screen-in-C
http://www.codersource.net/MicrosoftNet/CWinForms/CreatingaSplashScreeninC.aspx
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I have an app that uses a Splash Screen when it opens up, and it works fine.
The problem is that I've added a couple of pages that can be accessed via two live tiles, and the point is to let the user istantly load a certain section of the app without having to load the whole MainPage.xaml page, which is quite heavy to load.
These two pages are really simple and load almost istantly, but the app loads the Splash Screen anyways, and I don't like that.
Is there a way to "disable" the splash screen for a specific page?
Via C# or directly from the XAML, I don't know.
I enabled the Splash Screens simply by adding the SplashScreenImage.screen-WXGA.jpg (720p and 1080p as well) to the project main directory.
Thanks! :)
Sergio
No. You can't disable the splash screen. What you can do is to minimize all initialization work your app has to do so that the splash screen is shown for a minimum of time.
Sergio,
You can simulate a splash screen and decide based on how you were activated to show it or not. This sample shows one way to do it: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Splash-screen-sample-89c1dc78/
I would show it for the main xaml and others that take a long time to load and dismiss it in code.
I have a MDI form on which I have a menu, Sidebar and somewhat around 50 More controls which makes my application interface very heavy. Also I am loading something around 500 user data which is also loading on my MDI form List box.
However all these process takes a lot of time to load, what I want to do is to load all the stuff just before displaying my MDI form.
Lets say, when I click on login, It should show a progress bar and when progress bar loads to end with all the configuration like "User List Display, Loading of controls and other settings": Then only MDI form should appear.
I have also gone through the DevExpress control:
Splash Screen: http://documentation.devexpress.com/#WindowsForms/CustomDocument10826
Splash Screen video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFl6P9I6c5A
But this is proprietary.
Is there any control available with winforms so that I can accomplish it.
Like the way we use to see with Visual Studio, Photoshop and other softwares which are very heavily build.
Also, what would be the ideal way of doing this. I have read a lot about, backgroundWorker and Threading. Just need advice on what would be the best way as per you guys. And yes, the smartest way.
I'm developing a C#.NET (4.0) WinForms application. On startup I want to have a splash screen that fills a series of datagridviews on a different form.
At the moment the main form loads that data into the DataGridViews on Form_Load but this makes the Form hang there while this is happening.
So how do I call the method that loads the values to the DataGridView from the splash screen?
I'm rather new to C#.NET, I'm trying to move away from VB.
I would have the splash screen launch the real form where the DataGridViews are, and in that form put the data loading method on its own thread. For a nice and simple and beginner way, use a BackgroundWorker. For more advanced control use Threading.
How to use background worker.
Threading Class Docs
Very good tutorial on threading
EDIT:
As you mentioned in your comment it sounds like you still don't want the form to even appear until its done loading in the data. The easy way to do this is have the main form be hidden from startup, and in the on-load event launch the splash screen, and then when the method that does the data loading returns, set the visibility to true and close the splash screen form.
There are many ways to have a form start hidden. Here is a good forum question with lot of answers on different ways to do it.
I'm writing an application for wp7 with several pages, and i want to the splash screen image at the load of every page i have in the app - so the user would figure out he needs to wait a few seconds.
The default splash screen image is fine for me, but i don't know how to do it.
thanks for any help!
You can customize your own splashscreen dont need to use the default
Use the Loading method for the page which should be located on a panel on the left side of Visual Studio's Screen
You can do this by loading the SplashScreen Image on load of every page for some predefined time. And meanwhile other tasks can be done on Background threads (if they are not related to UI).
Also if you want to show a loader to User, you can create a Grid with some Background (semi transparent) and a Progress Bar on it. You can set its Visisbility true before any process which will take time and then hide it after process ends and Application is ready for user..
I'm going to input a splash screen to an application I'm currently working on that only consists of one form which we will call frmMain for now. I want to implement a splash screen (frmSplash) but need advice as to what would be the best way to implement it. The purpose of the splash screen will be to load necessary settings into textboxes, checkboxes, etc. based on the last settings of when the program was last closed. Here's my question.
Should I let the main form load, but keep it invisible to the user and then call the splash screen which will run and then load all the settings into the main form?
If so how would I do the above? Load the frmSplash in the frmMain_Load event? I plan to keep the splash screen visible for at least 3 seconds. How would I give it the pause effect so that it stays up for 3 seconds while it recovers the settings from the settings file?
Yes, it is a good practice to use a splash screen to hide form initialization. Here is a pretty good tutorial that should get you up and running:
Creating a Splash Screen in C#
It's probably cleaner not to load the settings in the splash form, but to keep that just for display. Display the splash form and load the settings in the main form.
I would suggest going the other way. Have frmSplash start up, parse the settings and pass them on to a new hidden frmMain. And once frmMain has finished loading (or after 3 seconds) show it.
Or just have the splash screen create a hidden frmMain and show it once it's done loading and in a valid state.
There's an example here, and one with better explanations here.
Note that neither of these examples perform any kind of "pre-loading", but you can do all that in the main thread while the splash thread is doing its eye-candy work.
Hopefully this is the kind of thing you're looking for. Good luck!
Here's a canned version you can try: Autorun Action Splash