[racket] Using a splash screen with GRacket

collects/drracket/drracket.rkt does something similar to set up
compilation handlers and (optionally) a profiler that I use for
performance debugging, and then it loads
drracket/private/drracket-normal.rkt which does the splash screen bit.

Robby

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Excellent! Thanks a lot!
> By any chance, do you remember the name of the file that does that?
> (Don't take more than 10s for this question, it's not worth it.)
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 14:00, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> A minimal amount of stuff is loaded (roughly what is loaded when
>> gracket itself starts up) and then the splash screen is opened and the
>> rest of drracket is loaded via a dynamic-require. Also, progress on
>> the splash screen's gauge% is made each time a file is loaded, which
>> is monitored by the load-handler.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is it possible to have a splash screen displayed while loading a GRacket
>> > program?
>> > Much like DrRacket's in fact.
>> > Because for some projects, it can take several seconds to initialize
>> > everything.
>> > I tried to open up a frame at the very beginning of the code, but it
>> > only
>> > shows up
>> > after everything is loaded too.
>> >
>> > How is DrRacket splash screen shown up so early, while DrRacket is
>> > loading?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Laurent
>> >
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