SPLAT - Command-line app to display a custom splash screen

SPLAT can be used to show a splash screen, that is, to display an image for a short period of time before starting a external program.

The main idea behind SPLAT is to use it as part of any WinRar or similar self-extracting files, Batch-script files, a post-installation process of installer builders like Inno Setup, etc, to customize your packaging.

This is an old project, with ugly source-code, and probably I will not rewrite it using good and modern habbits.

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📝 Requirements

• Microsoft Windows OS.

🤖 Getting Started

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Usage

Syntax:

Splat.exe [IMAGE FILE] [SWITCHES]

Switches:

/Duration   | The splash screen duration.    (Default: 5000 ms)
/FXDuration | The visual effects duration.   (Default: 1500 ms)
/FadeIN     | Enable FadeIN effect.
/FadeOUT    | Enable FadeOUT effect.
/Resize     | Set a new size for the image.
/Location   | Set the position of the image on the current screen.
/Clickable  | Enables doing click on the image to close it.
/OnTop      | Set the image on top of other windows.
/?          | Shows this help.

Switch value formats:

/Duration   (ms)
/FXDuration (ms)
/Resize     (widthXheight)
/Location   (X,Y)

Real world examples

Splat.exe "C:\Image.png"
(Shows a image at the center of the screen for 3000 ms.)

Splat.exe "C:\Image.png" /Resize 400x400 /Location 100,300
(Shows a resized image to 200x400 px at 100,300 coordenates for 3000 ms.)

Splat.exe "C:\Image.png" /Duration 6000 /FadeIN /FadeOUT /FXDuration 2000
(Shows a image at the center of the screen with fade effects for 6000 ms.
, plus 2000 ms for each effect then is a total of 10.000 ms.)

🔄 Change Log

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🏆 Credits

This work relies on the following technologies and libraries:

• .NET Framework

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