Rhino - Custom Splash Screen - Cross Platform?

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Hello,

It appears that one can utilize “skins” to customize portions of the Rhino UI such as the splash screen. However, the doc page has (Windows) listed so I’m assuming this is Windows specific?

Is there a Cross Platform solution allowing Mac & Windows custom splash screen?

Thank you for clarifying!

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This is correct.

Nothing already hooked up for you. But I guess you could make your own small application which has a splash screen and opens Rhino in the background with the /nosplash command.

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Thanks @CallumSykes , this is the route I am currently going. /nosplash and /notemplate so essentially boot Rhino in the background directly as you mention.

I’ll need to do research into adding the splash to the custom application. I have the application executable packaged but haven’t sorted the Splash screen part yet.

Thanks for the response!

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I’d think a transparent background Eto.Forms application would be ideal. And then use a drawable to get the nice background you want with rounded corners. If that’s your cup of tea.

The tricky bit is getting the splash screen to dissapear when Rhino is loaded.

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I was thinking the tricky bit was getting the eto.form “splash” to show before Rhino was loaded haha

Or would the custom application actually be using eto.forms outside of Rhino?

That’s interesting, something I hadn’t considered or researched yet

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Oh I was thinking you would create a completely separate Eto.Forms exe-style application that uses System.Process to launch Rhino. That way you can also use your own icon etc.

The only issue with this is distribution. But you could offer an “install” command in your package I guess that puts this exe somewhere. Then you’re still good to use mac.

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I hadn’t considered that route but I’ll look into that. That definitely has an interesting potential for my use case.

Thanks for sharing the ideas!

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