SplashScreen

Show a splash-screen during MATLAB application start-up.

Description

This class provides a splash-screen that you can show as your MATLAB application starts:

 * Border-less window
 * Ability to add text overlays
 * Optional progress bar with configurable location

This is mainly useful when deploying applications using the MATLAB compiler and where your application takes a while to initialize.

Requires MATLAB R2010a or above.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.10 (2010a)

[Dani]

Really, really nice - I wish I had it earlier.

Two questions:

1. Why can I not load animated GIFs? This would allow for even more dynamic splash screens.

2. It would be nice if one could control (deactivate) the text shadow, i.e. lines 100-110.

[Ben Tordoff]

Hi Dani, an update allowing the text shadows to be turned off is on its way. I don't think the Java tools I'm using allow animated GIFs to be viewed, so I don't think that can be supported in any easy way.

Cheers. Ben

[Christophe Tilman]

Very nice.
Only one remark about figure position.
On my computer, root 'MonitorPositions' return [left,bottom,right,up] for each monitor instead of [left,bottom, width, height] as described in the matlab documentation.

so, I had to replace line 247 & 248 by those:
x0 = pos(1,1) + (diff(pos(1,[1 3]))-obj.Icon.getIconWidth())/2
y0 = pos(1,2) + (diff(pos(1,[2 4]))-obj.Icon.getIconHeight())/2

Note that this is not an issue if you use only one monitor or if your primary monitor is on the left of the secondary.

[Christophe Tilman]

 

[Julián Francisco]

 

[Sim]

Nice addition, thank you!

I have a problem in my standalone application: the application hangs when executing the 'delete(s)' command (the splash screen disappears before crashing). Do you have an idea why?

My workaround is to hide the splash screen instead:

set(s,'Visible','off')

[Andre Asfar]

I have an error:

"Syntax error. You must supply both a window title and imagename"

What should I do?

[Ben Tordoff]

Hi Andre, you must call this with a name for the window (i.e. a title) and the name of the image file you want it to show. For example: "s = SplashScreen('My App','myAppImage.png')". Type "help SplashScreen" for more information. If that still doesn't help you, let me know.

Ben