Splash screen with Progress Bar - Windows

[fpietrosanti]

Apaf should provide a splash screen functionality, that can be enabled by the developer, and used to provide a nice splash screen of the application at it's startup operations.

The splash screen functionality must be initially available on Windows.

An howto for the branding of Apaf application should be available explaining:

• Specification of image formats for Windows to be used for splash screen
• How to convert a standard image to that size for Windows

The splash screen may contain additional dynamic information on the application startup process, that the developer can feed with useful startup information.

It must be supported on the following platforms:

• Windows XP SP3
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows 8

[fpietrosanti]

It seems that making a splash screen on Windows with Python it's quite difficult http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2010-March/010293.html .

But here there's an example on how to make it with Pywin32 without any external framework:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/120687-low-resource-win32-splashscreen/