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khuong	2011-05-10 , 04:50
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Originally Posted by Saturn

Thanks for taking the time to write it so cleanly an understandable.

Care to put it in the wiki too?

It's in the wiki now

Originally Posted by tushyd

I don't know sometimes it's kind of annoying. If you don't keep it in mind you sit there trying to click on things and you can't.

Wouldn't it be better to put up a welcome image or something?

If the app is well coded and small, it shouldn't take more ~1 sec to load, so users don't even know it's just an image.
For big app which take a while at startup, yes a welcome or a loading screen is more appropriate. This same trick works for welcome or loading screen as well, since it load the image before it started executing the code in the app, in fact it's much better and faster than loading a splashscreen or a welcome screen in from the app itself.

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