[kepler-dev] Splash screen and corresponding changes

[Chad Berkley]

that's what i meant, yeah.

Matthew Brooke wrote:
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>  > 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.
> 
> m
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> Chad Berkley wrote:
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>> 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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