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April 3, 2013
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Splash screen

  • April 3, 2013
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Does anyone know of a way to suppress the Arbortext Editor splash screen? Or alternatively, replace it?

Thanks,
Dave

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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    April 3, 2013
    Hi David--



    It's pretty hard to do this, because the splash screen is baked right
    into the editor executable file. So you can't just swap out a .gif file
    and get your own splash screen. And I couldn't find any startup command
    parameters that would suppress the splash screen.



    One thing I found that seems to work is to launch it as an ActiveX
    object. If you create a file called startepic.js, containing the
    following code:



    var epic = new ActiveXObject("Epic.Application");

    epic.Acl.execute("edit " + WScript.Arguments.item(0) + ");



    you should be able to launch Arbortext without a splash screen by
    calling



    startepic.js "C:\my\file\path\doc.xml"



    This depends on having the Windows Scripting Host enabled on your
    system. You'll have to decide if this is more trouble than it's worth.



    --Clay



    Clay Helberg

    Senior Consultant



    TerraXML

    1380 Forest Park Circle, Suite 100

    Lafayette, CO 80027
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    GarethOakes16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    April 7, 2013
    You mentioned about changing the splash screen image. You could use a "Resource Editor" (eg.
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    ClayHelberg18-Opal
    18-Opal
    April 8, 2013
    Gareth--

    Actually, I was able to find the splash screen by opening the executable in MS Visual Studio. But I would definitely not want to recommend to anyone that they try to hack the exe binary just to tweak a splash screen. I'm pretty sure that would void your warranty, at the very least, and might well break the executable.

    --Clay

    Sent from my iPad

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    GarethOakes16-Pearl
    16-Pearl
    April 8, 2013
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