[Gretl-users] Re: The Splash Screen is here

[Allin Cottrell]

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.