[Lazarus] RFC: remove StayOnTop for splash screen

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 03:29:13 -0300
Flávio Etrusco <flavio.etrusco at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:14 AM, dmitry boyarintsev
> <skalogryz.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2010/3/1 Flávio Etrusco <flavio.etrusco at gmail.com>:
> >> what do you think of removing the fsStayOnTop flag for the splash
> >> screen? It serves no purpose and is very annoying...

The parameter to not show the splash screen is:
--no-splash-screen
or
--nsc

There are two splash screens.
One in the IDE and one in the startlazarus executable.
The on in the IDE hides as soon as a modal form pop ups (e.g. error
message) or the IDE is ready.
The other in startlazarus stays for some seconds. startlazarus tells
the IDE to not show its splashscreen. There is no communication between
both.


> > Agreed.
> > It's better to speed-up loading, rather than masking it with all kind
> > of splash screens.

+1


> >
> > thanks,
> > dmitry
> >
> 
> That's another story. I'm not proposing to remove the splash screen
> (actually Paul taught there's already a parameter or setting to remove
> it. i'm proposing is simply to remove the stayontop, which serves no
> purpose...
> The delay seems to be caused by codetools loading the files...

Why do you think so?

Mattias