[kepler-dev] Splash screen and corresponding changes

[Matthew Brooke]

 > then when the vergil window comes up, the little menu box
 > comes up but it's really small with scroll bars.

By "little menu box", do you mean the Welcome Screen? If so, I see the 
same behavior on OS X (too small with scrollbars). I just figured that 
was the first pass, and someone hadn't fixed it yet.

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Chad Berkley wrote:
> Hey kevin and christopher,
> 
> I'm not sure if you've tried this on linux, but I'm basically seeing 
> just a white box as the splash screen.  then when the vergil window 
> comes up, the little menu box comes up but it's really small with scroll 
> bars.  I'm not sure if this is what you're seeing on windows as well, 
> but i thought i'd let you know.
> 
> chad
> 
> Kevin Ruland wrote:
>> As a follow up, the second experiment of putting selected lines from 
>> _createEmptyConfiguration() into invokeLater() calls also helped out 
>> greatly.  I cannot inherit the VergilApplication and reimplement the 
>> _createEmptyConfiguration( ) method because of some critical private 
>> data members (configuration for one).
>>
>> After a few more hours of hacking we'll probably end up with all the 
>> splash functionality in VergilApplication itself.  This does have at 
>> least one added benefit because VergilApplication will know exactly when 
>> to bring the splash down so there will be no need for a timer.  I don't 
>> feel completely comfortable with the work I'm doing now because I don't 
>> really understand the deeper Ptolemy/Vergil issues and don't have access 
>> to all the test cases.  Christopher, if you can, I'd like to leave this 
>> in your court to finish.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>> The first experiment (removing the invokeLater from main()) was 
>>> promising.  Now to coerce VergilApplication._createEmptyConfiguration() 
>>> to use invokeLater().
>>>  
>>
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