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Win32 Window Creation Problem

Started by PixolMaster Sep 1, 2003 at 1:36 PM 3 replies 350+ views

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Sep 1, 2003 at 1:36 PM

Hi all, I''ve been working on a game for a little while now, and as it opens it starts by fading in and out a logo and then transitioning to the main menu. My problem is that the fade begins at the moment the program executes, so if a person''s computer is at all slow then by the time the window is displayed the logo might be faded in or, sometimes, partially faded out already. Is there some way that I can know when a window is fully created and being displayed? It doesn''t look very professional to have the opening sequence partially finished by the time the user sees it... Thanks much for you time. --- Alex Broadwin --- Domini Nocti Games

mikeyrb

Sep 1, 2003 at 1:41 PM

I don''t think you will reach the main loop until your window is done being created.

PixolMaster

Sep 1, 2003 at 1:54 PM

mikeyrb: Seems you were right, and it got me thinking... So I looked everywhere I could BEFORE the main loop, and the problem was that I was initializing the clock before creating the window, and that time is used to decide how far we are into the fade-sequence... Problem solved! Thanks much!

--- Alex Broadwin
--- Domini Nocti Games

sSimontis

Sep 1, 2003 at 2:16 PM

Even though you solved it, you can always use the sleep() command to pause it for a few seconds.

Scott Simontis
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