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Hi,
Any ideas for displaying a progress message and or progress bar over the top of the splash screen while my program moves a couple hundred files from the engine folder to the documents folder on first launch of the program. This process takes place in the preopenstack handler and currently tales about 10 to 20 seconds however in todays world 20 seconds without some sort of message explaining WHAS UP aint cool at all. I want to be cool so anyone? Whats the cool thang to do? =]
Dave

Don't know how cool this is, but I think you'll need to create a card with an exact duplicate of your splash screen. If there's a way to animate the splash screen I'd love to learn it.

Thanks for the idea. It's consistently taking around 10 seconds to load so I think I will just use the standard "answer" command to alert the user: "Loading data. This will take about 10 seconds" This unfortunately requires the user to click "Ok" to procede but should work "Ok" until something better pops up.
Thanks again.
Dave

Why show the progress over the splash screen? Just do it over the first screen the user sees after the splash, and prevent any user interaction with a semi-opaque full screen rectangle behind the progress bar. Check out this stack as an example:

http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php? ... =15#p43063

(That stack downloads another stack from the internet - it uses a % display to show progress of the download...you might use the same, calculated according to the number of files you are copying...)

Gerry