[New] Splash plugin v2

Classic Servoy
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Version 2 of my plugin now gives you the ability to hide the splash via a method, make the solution window full screen and if you like, to hide the menubar and the taskbar/dock…

For the full story see www.servoymagazine.com or go to my site and download it (www.it2be.com).

Cheers,

marcel

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Hello Marcel,

greatjob! Especially hiding the menu bar is useful. You only have forgotten to make plugins.it2be_splash.setMenuBarVisible(); visible in the plugin. It does work, but it doesn’t show up under the available functions…

Thanks for sharing!

Patrick

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:-) That’s on purpose since it doesn’t work on the mac yet. It’s also not documented. Didnt’ expect any smartass :-) to look into the jar though…

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That wasn’t necessary… You expose it in your sample code.

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Hi Marcel,

Where to download the plugin?

Thanks
Hameed

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… and download it (www.it2be.com).

so go to www.it2be.com and find it there…

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Ok Thanks for that indicating that. Over looked.

But now I am getting when I download the
http://www.it2be.nl/plugins/Splash.zip

Can you check pls…

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: “Operation timed out”
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.

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Got it now Thanks.

One very little issue I got when I was testing. If you showed the splash twice before the first one closes, then the splash never close until I restart the servoy.

Cheers

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Thanks marcel.

The hide() function is very useful.

I can now show the splash whenever I am going start a lengthy process where the progression plugin is not involved and close the splash at the end of the script.

Cheers and thanks.

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Thanks for the compliment,

I can’t image the splash to never ‘close’ unless you set the time length too long. What I can imagine is that the hide only works for one splash.

I did put the splash in a seperate threath, that’s the reason Servoy keeps on running, however I haven’t rebuilt the plugin so that you can run more than one splash at a time. Didn’t see the purpose for that and it would have taken me too much time right now…

Cheers

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There is no purpose for showing more than one splash at a time. For someone else there may be some purpose for that.

The have solved the problem by calling hide() method not caring whether a splash is open or not before doing a show method.

Also after showing the splash in a long running script, I have to call application.UpdateUI() to make it actually appear on the screen.

Thanks for your nice work.

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Hello Marcel,

if I simply move your sample code for plugins.it2be_splash.showText I get an error, stating that the method could not be found.

Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem in the current build?

Thanks!
Patrick

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Hi Marcel,

Nice job: this Splash plugin! Really like it!
One question: I noticed with the ‘show’ method that you can insert an image AND text. Is that text ABOVE the image or is it also possible to have text ON the image?

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If (and only if :) ) I did the samples the correct way you should be able to find how to put text on top of the image.

Clarification: I do just that. I make an image that defines the size of the splash and put the text over the iamge…

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This is how I do it:

	var message = "<HTML><HEAD><\/HEAD><BODY>";
	message += "<TABLE BORDER='0' CELLPADDING='5' CELLSPACING='0' WIDTH='465'><TR><TD COLSPAN='5' align='left' valign='bottom'><font face='verdana' size='3'>









<b>";
	message += i18n.getI18NMessage('2.version') + " 2.1r" + application.getSolutionRelease() + " ©IT2Be 2003 - 2005
";
	message += "Registered to: " + plugins.it2be_support.customLicenseCompanyName;
	message += "</b><\/TD><\/TR>";
	message += "<\/TABLE>";
	message += "<\/BODY></HTML>";
	
	plugins.it2be_splash.show("media:///Splash.gif", message, 1, 1, 25, true, 1);
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Awesome! That’s the way, it’s just perfect! Thanks again, Marcel!
Get ready for ‘het IJ’ ! :wink:

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Hi Marcel,

Can I show an animated gif inside a splash? would that work?

Thanks

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Maybe, maybe not. For me it didn’t work. It made the splash hang. It looks like java/servoy has a problem with an animated gif anyways.

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Ok. Thanks for letting me know that. I thought it would help show an animation during a long running process.

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It is the exact same thing I wanted to do. Although the process is running in a seperate thread however anything you do behind the splash will take too much of the processor to really update the splash. Will investigate it some time…