How To: Create a Splash Screen for a Non MFC Application?

[Siddhartha]

Hi All,

Have a non-MFC _tWinMain application - can someone please tell me how to have it start with a Splash screen?

Thanks and regards,
Siddhartha

[ovidiucucu]

Create a window, with no border and no caption, show it, create a timer for closing it, and in its window procedure, handle WM_TIMER, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, and so on... and of course WM_PAINT to draw a bitmap.

Anyhow, this is more C++ and WinAPI-specific question (that is a "non-MFC" forum) .

[Siddhartha]

Thank you very much!!

[puzzolino]

Eventually create a thread for it, so that it gets repainted correctly if your program startup is very slow...