Question

I am working on a GUI for motor control, for which i will be loading huge data initially. Hence i want to add a splash screen to it. But do i need to fix the time out duration of the splash screen a priory? I would like the splash screen to disappear 2 seconds after the whole loading is done. Please help.

Answer 1

According to the docs here you can pass in the style wxSPLASH_NO_TIMEOUT to prevent the splash screen from timing out automatically. You’d need to have something in your other code that triggered its OnClose handler when you were ready for it to go away.

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The style wxSPLASH_NO_TIMEOUT is imported from wxPython._windows, which is deprecated. It still works on my system in python 2.6 and 2.7, but you actually probably want to use this:

from wx._windows import SPLASH_NO_TIMEOUT

Then, in the milliseconds argument to SplashScreen you can use -1 like so:

mySplash = SplashScreen(myBitmap, SPLASH_NO_TIMEOUT, -1, myParent)

Later, when you’ve finished loading, call mySplash.Destroy() to clear it off the screen.