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The jitter patch I'm working on takes a long time loading (it has to initialise a jit.matrixset of 1048 members on DV-PAL resolution to save video in. Why does that take so long, by the way?).

Is there a way to show the user a startupscreen, immediately when he er she started the application? Now you have to wait a minute without knowing why it takes so long or doubting if maybe the application crashed.

The jitter patch I'm working on takes a long time loading (it has to initialise a jit.matrixset of 1048 members on DV-PAL resolution to save video in. Why does that take so long, by the way?).
Is there a way to show the user a startupscreen, immediately when he er she started the application? Now you have to wait a minute without knowing why it takes so long or doubting if maybe the application crashed.

show-screen-at-startup-app

A splash screen could be created simply using a patcher window. The problem might be that you would not be able to call it until the patch is loaded, which would be after a minute.

If you were able to dynamically load or create parts of your patch, then you would be able to choose to do that after opening the splash screen. The thispatcher object might be useful for scripting, and pcontrol can be used to load patches.

You could try to implement Johan's suggestion and delay the jit.matrixset initialization by maybe 500ms or longer to give your splashscreen subpatch time to display and distract the user for the rest of the initialization process.

This sort of delay stuff is horrifically fragile and indeterminate, and I can't recommend it. I just mention it as an idea you might want to think about, sort of like the infamous Woodstock bad acid warning ("hey, it's your trip, so go ahead if you want to, but be advised...").

Tried the pcontrol/open option on a patcherwindow before, but indeed, it only opens when the whole thing has finished loading.

Maybe an option through the thispatcher. But no experinece there. I will go into it.

And indeed, the delay-trick is a little bit spooky, so I prefer a more steady solution. But thanks for the simple hint.

Tried the pcontrol/open option on a patcherwindow before, but indeed, it only opens when the whole thing has finished loading.
Maybe an option through the thispatcher. But no experinece there. I will go into it.
And indeed, the delay-trick is a little bit spooky, so I prefer a more steady solution. But thanks for the simple hint.

show screen at startup app?