[Laszlo-user] Splash screen not showing up in solo

[P T Withington]

And what browser?  IE is notorious for breaking splash.

Also, note the following (from a previous report on splash not working):

> The Flash player will defer animation updates in favor of loading.   
> You can prove this to yourself by loading your app through a  
> bandwidth restricter (e.g., a modem).  When your app is local and  
> loading 'infinitely fast', the player spends it's time doing useful  
> work, rather than spinning animations.
>
> As annoying as this may be, it's going to get your app loaded faster.
>
> Personally I think this is the right choice.  True it is the  
> opposite of the Windows model which gives priority to the flapping  
> folder, or the IE model which advances the progress bar whether any  
> data is actually being transferred or not, but there's nothing you  
> can do about it, unless you want to artificially throttle your  
> servers.
>
> Similarly, the player will defer animations when there is  
> computation happening.  If your app is a huge app that initializes  
> all at once, this will cause any spinners to not get updated.  You  
> can look at the 'initstage' feature to address this issue.  By  
> deferring bits of your app that are not needed immediately, you  
> will both get to your first screen faster and possibly free up some  
> cpu cycles to animate your spinners.

On 2007-07-12, at 09:29 EDT, Robin Sheat wrote:

> On Friday 13 July 2007 01:23:31 Henry Minsky wrote:
>> This is in which version of LPS ?
> Oh, 3.3.3
>
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