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AppGameKit Classic Chat / [SOLVED] Show only a splash screen at beginning of program for limited time

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Unseen Ghost
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Posted: 18th Oct 2021 00:45 Edited at: 18th Oct 2021 00:48
Hi,
For the life of me I have tried numerous ways to have only a sprite splash screen show for about 5 seconds. All I get is a white screen for about 5 seconds and then it and everything else shows up at the same time. I have loaded an image, created the sprite and set the position of the sprite all before what I have tried to pause the program so the splash shows for 5 seconds, but, like I said above I get a white screen for 5 seconds and then program continues as normal.



The timer works, but I get white screen for 5 seconds. I have also tried other ways, but same thing happends. The above code and the other ways I tried, I put after loading image, creating sprite and setting the position of sprite.
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Posted: 18th Oct 2021 01:22 Edited at: 18th Oct 2021 01:28
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this is (pretty much) how i did it in P3:

can do a "fade out" similarly (or get rid of the alpha part altogether).

or, just a 5 sec pause:
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Posted: 18th Oct 2021 01:48
Quote: "or, just a 5 sec pause:"


Thank you Virtual Nomad, your 2nd snippet worked.

I knew I was on the right track with my code, but I think I was just missing a sync() command
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Posted: 18th Oct 2021 02:52
This is what I'm doing in my loop, I will try Virtual Nomads. Mine works good but I want it to fade if possible.



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