Comments on: Creating a Splash Screen in AIR

By: screenworker

screenworker — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:54:15 +0000

Doesn’t work with SDK 4.0.0 only with previous SDK!

“splashWindow.stage.addChild(appSplash);” throws the exception:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at mx.controls::SWFLoader/addedToStageHandler()[E:\dev\4.0.0\frameworks\projects\framework\src\mx\controls\SWFLoader.as:2303]
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/addChild()
at flash.display::Stage/addChild()

By: Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:47:23 +0000

Ah, mysteries. I can’t remember :) Has something to do with making it available to the framework for use in ActionScript later on.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:05:23 +0000

what’s up with:
hiddenCanvas.addChild(appSplash);
hiddenCanvas.removeChild(appSplash);
i know it doesn’t work without these lines, but why?

By: victor azuara

victor azuara — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:08:28 +0000

i tested this example in osx and when show the screen splash, show a little left bar, can you help me to fix it?

By: Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:45:40 +0000

@fexnok
Probably the simplest way to go about it would be to have the timer run infinitely, start the timer and invoke the function to perform your processes. Have the timer keep checking if some Boolean variable (“isProcessed”, perhaps?) is true or fale.

At the end of your processes, just flip the flag to true and have the timer just keep checking that variable, once it’s been set to true, kill the timer, hide the splash, and reveal your UI.

By: fexnok

fexnok — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:26:10 +0000

That’s an excellent example, how can I replace the timer function for a callback from a function? for example a function which loads everything in background while the splash is displayed and when the process finishes remove the splash?

Thanks

By: newton

newton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:14:15 +0000

Thanks for the way you have shown. Yet, I would look for any other way possible. Please let me know if you get some other way(better logical possibility).

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:32:01 +0000

Great article, very useful. I am having an issue though — binding doesn’t seem to work. For example, if I do something a bit more complex (e.g. add a Text element to the splash), pushing a value into it via binding does not seem to work. Any thoughts?

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By: Joseph Labrecque

Joseph Labrecque — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:49:29 +0000

@Adrian: Glad you found it useful!