Splash Screen Control


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Legal disclaimer

This is ActiveX control is property of A-Soft Technologies. You can use it wherever you want as long as you

	make a link to www.A-SoftTech.com - find out how
	don't use this control on a commercial page without prior permission from A-Soft Technologies
	use only the Properties and methods described below

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What this Control does

This control enables your webpage (or program) to display a so called Splash Screen. This is mostly used to give the User some graphical response while your program is loading. On a webpage the computer could download some graphics or sounds meanwhile. It has got a very simple interface: You just set its properties and then call the Display method (e.g. in the form/load procedure). The control then displays the Splash Screen for a preset time (DisplayTime property), till the user clicks on it or it is hidden by the Undisplay method.

How to use this Control

Write this Code in your HTML file

<object ID="SplashScreen" WIDTH="44" HEIGHT="41"
CLASSID="CLSID:38EB9683-342A-11D2-BEBB-60505AC10000"
CODEBASE="http://www.A-SoftTech.com/ActiveX/ASoftSplashScreen.CAB#version=1,0,0,2">>
<param name="Warning" value="The contents...">
<param name="LicenseTo" value="Public Webpage">
<param name="Company" value="A-Soft">
<param name="ProductName" value="A-Soft Home">
<param name="Platform" value="IE 3.01+">
<param name="Version" value="2.0">
<param name="DisplayTime" value="5000">
<param name="CopyrightText" value="A-Soft Technologies">
<param name="Picture" value="An2ANetSmall.jpg">
<param name="URL" value="http://www.A-SoftTech.com/images">
</object>

...and ready is your Splash Screen Control

If you want to use the control on your page, you either have to download the SlowMotionButton.CAB file and set CODEBASE to a custom URL or have to replace the CODEBASE with the complete URL of this CAB "http://www.A-SoftTech.com/ActiveX/ASoftSplashScreen.cab" (as shown above).

Programming Information:

Name of property/event:	Type	Description:
Warning (property)	String	Your warning to the World - this' mine (bottom left).
LicenseTo (property)	String	License Text (Top right).
Company (property)	String	The name of you company (or yours).
ProductName (property)	String	The name of what you are splashing.
Platform (property)	String	The platform of your product.
Version (property)	String	The current version of your product.
CopyrightText (property)	String	Your copyright Text or any annotations you have to make.
Copyright (property)	String	You may change this string if you enter annotations instead of copyright information for CopyrightText; Standard: "Copyright:".
Displaytime (property)	Long	Sets the time the Splash Screen is shown in milliseconds - if 0 The user ALWAYS has to click on the Splash Screen to go on; Standard: 0.
Picture (property)	String	The FileName of the Picture file to be shown.
URL (property)	String	The URL of the Picture; if omitted the program searches for a local copy of Picture.
Display (method)	-	Displays the Splash Screen.
UnDisplay (method)	-	Hides a currently visible Splash Screen without waiting for user or timer.
Displayed (event)	-	Fired after Splash Screen has been displayed.
UnDisplayed (event)	-	Fired after Splash Screen has been hidden (by User, timer or UnDisplay method).

Here a Example of A-Soft Splash Screen:

Credits:

A-Soft Splash Screen Control was written entirely by A. Nahr. The control was finished in the version 1.0 on the 21st of April 1997.