now splash screen can be disabled...

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>

ui (gen4)/e.js

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ var BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow
 
 var path = require('path')
 var url = require('url')
+//var fs = require('fs')
 
 
 //---------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@ var url = require('url')
 var win
 
 function createWindow(){
+	// NOTE: this is done here as this does not depend on code loading, 
+	// 		thus showing the splash significantly faster...
 	// XXX move this to splash.js and use both here and in app.js...
 	// XXX also show load progress here...
 	var splash = global.splash = new BrowserWindow({
@@ -40,7 +43,6 @@ function createWindow(){
 		center: true,
 		width: 800, 
 		height: 500,
-		//backgroundColor: '#333333',
 
 		alwaysOnTop: true,
 
@@ -60,8 +62,13 @@ function createWindow(){
 		slashes: true
 	}))
 	splash.once('ready-to-show', function(){
-		splash.show()
+		this.webContents
-	})
+			// see if the splash screen is disabled...
+			.executeJavaScript('localStorage.disableSplashScreen')
+			.then(function(disabled){
+				disabled ?
+					splash.destroy()
+					: splash.show() }) })
 	//*/
 
 	// Create the browser window.

ui (gen4)/features/app.js

@@ -281,14 +281,13 @@ var ElectronHostActions = actions.Actions({
 					// XXX move this to splash.js and use both here and in e.js...
 					new electron.remote.BrowserWindow({
 						// let the window to get ready before we show it to the user...
-						//show: false,
+						show: false,
 
 						transparent: true,
 						frame: false,
 						center: true,
 						width: 800, 
 						height: 500,
-						//backgroundColor: '#333333',
 
 						alwaysOnTop: true,
 
@@ -310,6 +309,9 @@ var ElectronHostActions = actions.Actions({
 					protocol: 'file:',
 					slashes: true
 				}))
+				splash.once('ready-to-show', function(){
+					splash.show()
+				})
 
 			} else if(action != 'on' && splash){
 				splash.destroy()
@@ -523,7 +525,16 @@ var WindowedAppControlActions = actions.Actions({
 		}],
 
 	toggleSplashScreenShowing: ['Interface/Splash screen on start',
-		core.makeConfigToggler('show-splash-screen', ['on', 'off'])],
+		core.makeConfigToggler('show-splash-screen', 
+			['on', 'off'],
+			function(action){
+				if(action == 'on'){
+					delete localStorage.disableSplashScreen
+
+				} else if(action == 'off'){
+					localStorage.disableSplashScreen = true
+				}
+			})],
 })
 
 // XXX store/load window state...

ui (gen4)/ui.js

@@ -176,25 +176,6 @@ $(function(){
 	// setup the viewer...
 	ig
 		.load({ viewer: $('.viewer') })
-		/* XXX load the intro index...
-		.on('ready', function(){
-			// load some testing data if nothing else loaded...
-			if(!this.url_history || Object.keys(this.url_history).length == 0){
-				// NOTE: we can (and do) load this in parts...
-				this
-					.loadDemoIndex()
-					// this is needed when loading legacy sources that do not have tags
-					// synced...
-					// do not do for actual data...
-					.syncTags('both')
-			}
-		})
-		//*/
-		/* XXX should this be here???
-		.run(function(){
-			this.toggleSplashScreen 
-				&& this.toggleSplashScreen('on') })
-		//*/
 		.start()
 })