Fancy splash screen for compiled .exe GUIs

Displays your splash screen while loading your compiled GUI

Description

Now you can display a fancy, real splash screen instead of the boring command window while your compiled GUI is starting up. You can modify the appearance of the splash screen easily by exchanging a bitmap file.
You have to add one single line of code in your GUI .m file before compiling it:

function MyNiceGUI_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)
disp('GUIstarted');

• Required Products: MATLAB Compiler
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 5.2 (R10)
• Other requirements: This has been tested on Windows XP and Vista, probably also works on other Windows versions.

[Jveer]

looks good. can it be used to display images with transparent backgrounds?

[W Thielicke]

You can only use bmp's as splash screen, and bmp's don't support transparency as far as I know.

[Jveer]

oh thats unfortunate. i tried my own version using imread (to support other more useful formats than bmp) but when i load an image with transparent background the latter is replaced with a black background.

[W Thielicke]

The splash screen is programmed in VB.NET, hence I could also choose one color within the image as a "transparency key", making the splash screen transparent. But since I do not get comments or any ratings on my contribution I suppose that noone uses it anyway.

[Jveer]

 

[Olivier Francois]

 

[Olivier Francois]

I've missed my commentary...

Very great contribution.
It works fine with GUIs compiled with 2008b (compiler v79).
The file matgui.exe might not work as with newer version of the compiler it is given with mclmcrrt79 instead of mclmcrrt78 (so that file is then missing to launch matgui).

Fortunately, the splash screen doesn't care about that ;)

Would you consider supporting bitmaps bigger than 320x160 ?

Thanks for this contribution.

[Mehmet OZTURK]

 

[W Thielicke]

Images bigger than 320x160 can be implemented. If you have special wishes, contact me, and I'll see what I can do.
The splash screen should work with any version of the compiler, since it is completely independent of matlab.

[Alexander Kosenkov]

This is NOT working in out-of-the-box Windows Vista, fails with error message and stops forever:

matgui.exe - Unable To Locate Component
---------------------------
This application has failed to start because mclmcrrt78.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

.NET, Matlab and MCR were installed.

[W Thielicke]

I recommend to have a look at the documentation for your problem:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-1IW46N/
So you should recompile the Matlab GUI using YOUR deployment toolbox.

[Alexander Kosenkov]

Do you have any plans to publish the source code?
I would like to add Tip Of The Day into this window.

[Sven Gerich]

Very nice tool!
I think, it will be very handy for some of my applications :)

[JuBar]

Excellent app ! Is there anyway to use bigger pictures and modify the text displayed on the image ? (I'd like to use it in a French app)
Anyway thanks for this little program !

[Andre Asfar]

Nice!! :)

[Michelle]

Will this work with R2009b compiled applications?

[W Thielicke]

I think it will. The splash screen is just starting the Matlab compiled exe and hides the command window while displaying a bitmap at the same time.