Making a splash screen

Question

The concept of a splash screen doesn\'t strike me as something that should be so complicated, but I\'m having trouble getting the whole splash screen painted.

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Answer 1

Try putting the call to loadAndCheckDatabase in a background thread, moving the close of the splash screen there, or simply closing it with a timer in the splash screen. With the work in a background thread, the all UI functions will be able to operate without interruption.