Be nice, this is a newbie windows API question. 1

[TuxedoTemplar]

Ok since I just learned windows API programming yesterday (well all the concepts, but the fun part of actually doing anything useful I'm still crawling through ), I'm now trying to start on the application that I had in mind. All I want to know is what I need to do to have a splash screen (420x320, center screen) appear while the program is loading, and THEN have the main window come up after. The splash screen is nothing more than a bitmap that pops up over all applications and stays in place while the program is "loading", and has no buttons, borders, etc.

I have a VERY rough idea how I might do this, but I'm not looking forward to 3 hours of tinkering to get it to work, when (I'd almost be certain) someone can roll it off the top of their heads in less than 5 minutes, if only they didn't mind taking the time to do it. Thanks for the help.

 

[apatterno]

Advice: create a dialog resource with a single bitmap that fills the whole dialog.

Then use the CreateDialogParam to create a modeless dialog. Save the dialog's HWND in a variable, then when the applicaton is finished loading, call DestroyWindow, passing the dialog's HWND.

Will

 

[LazyMe]

Splash screens usually are borderless. I'd follow the suggestion but, instead of a dialog, I'd use CreateWindow to create a borderless window in which you render your bitmap.

It involves a bit more work, but it's all API programming, like you wanted to...
Greetings,
Rick

 

[apatterno]

Or even easier you could make a dialog without WS_BORDER style.