Filepro splash screen

[Bob Stockler]

Brian K. White wrote (on Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:06:12PM -0400):
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| I don't feel bad helping thwart fp's wishes in this case because in the 
| past I've described a legitimate grievance with the new mandatory splash, 
| where the splash introduced an unreasonable & unacceptable degradation in 
| useability for the end user and an unreasonable & unacceptable burden for 
| us to work around it, and the answer was "tough".

Long before the name "spash" or "splash screen" came into my ken,
maybe so long ago as PROFILE II, but I think more likely on Tandy
6000 filePro 1.2, I was annoyed by a screen that displayed briefly
after electing a choice from its Main Menu (or maybe any menu).

I recall that I patched the binary that produced that unwanted,
undesired, interruption in the flow of things, by changing the
character before, or at the beginning of, the text that displayed
to a NUL.

It's been a loooong time, and my memory about it is hazy, but my
hat's off to you, Brian, for telling people how to get rid of
screen displays (interruptions) that are of no use to the users
(and are of no benefit to the sellers of the underlying software).

Bob

PS - I've gotten used to "splash sceens" on Windows, where it takes
     a while for a program to load, and they give some confidence
     that the program is, in fact, loading.

     But in the middle of a user prograam?  That is rediculous.

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