KSplashScreen usage

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 25 of May 2004 19:29, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to convert Quanta's splashscreen to use KSplashScreen, but
> it seems to not work correctly. According to the docs this should be a
> rather easy task, just create the K/QSplashScreen object, show it, do
> some work and delete it. The results I get is:
> - the splash is shown
> - the main window appears in top of the splash, so it's hidden (I even
> tried to pass WStyle_StaysOnTop and WStyle_StaysOnTop | WX11BypassWM
> to the constructor)
> - the splash remains there in the background until I click on it.
> Even stranger, calling any method of the KSplashScreen object after show
> crashes.
>
> A search through the KDE sources, including extragear showed that there
> is no KDE application that is using KSplashScreen... :-(
>
> I tried the following in the QMainWindow class:
> 1. in the ctor:
>       quantaApp = new QuantaApp(mdiMode); //the main window
>       KSplashScreen *sp = new KSplashScreen(UserIcon("quantalogo_be"),
> WStyle_StaysOnTop | WX11BypassWM);

 I don't know about the rest, but for a start you could drop this W* rubbish 
and let the class handle it itself.

>       sp->show();
>       setMainWidget(quantaApp);
>       slotInit(); //here are the time expensive operations
>
> 2. at the end of slotInit():
>   delete sp;
>
> putting sp->finish(quantaApp) after setMainWidget() or sp->hide() before
> delete sp crashes the application and indicates that sp is NULL.
>
> Does anyone know how should I use this class correctly?
>
> Andras

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