A splash window is a transient window that appears temporarily when the user starts the application. Generally, the pop-up window displays a copyright notice while the application is initialized.

15.5.1 The SECSplashWnd Class

The SECSplashWnd class provides you with a ready-to-use splash window for your applications. All you need to do is insert a splash bitmap and text. The splash window deletes itself after a specified time or when the user clicks it, so you do not have to keep track of the splash window in your application.

Table 39: SECSplashWnd Methods

The SECSplashWnd constructor has an alternate constructor that takes two additional parameters— bWaitForTimer and bAlwaysOnTop.

SECSplashWnd(UINT nNewBitmapID, UINT nNewDuration = 2500, BOOL bWaitForTimer = FALSE, BOOL bAlwaysOnTop = FALSE);

If you want to display a login or password dialog with SECSplashWnd as the parent, set the third parameter to TRUE and then call EnableTimer() when you dismiss the dialog.

15.5.2 Using SECSplashWnd

1. In the Visual Studio resource editor, add a splash screen bitmap resource.

2. Create an instance of SECSplashWnd on the heap. In the constructor, specify the bitmap ID and the duration for the splash window. For example:

   m_pSplashWnd = new SECSplashWnd(IDB_SPLASHWND,3500);

3. Call the Create() method to create the splash window.

   m_pSplashWnd->Create();

15.5.3 SECSplashWnd Samples

The sample Splash51 demonstrates the 32-bit implementation of SECSplashWnd. This sample also uses the SECRegistry classes to read the user's name from the registry and display it on the splash screen during application startup. When you open the project in Visual Studio, the bitmap used by SECSplashWnd appears in the list of application resources.