Splash screen is not working

[ericweiner]

not sure when this broke but it does not currently come up.

Ideally I would like:

1. the splash screen to come up immediately- as soon as possible after you startup the program. (right now there is no feedback that it is actually running for many seconds after you run the program)
2. I'd like to add "quick tips" at the bottom, a different one every startup. i.e. "Right click anywhere in the image to center on that location", "Press control and use the scroll wheel to adjust focus", "click on the image of the plate to move to that location", etc.
3. Maybe a progress bar as well?

[ericweiner]

Triage / analysis (no fix yet)

Disposition: part bug (needs-info to route) + part new-feature

Key finding: the splash is a PyInstaller bootloader splash (pyi_splash), not a Kivy widget -- it exists ONLY in the packaged .exe (all touch-points guarded by sys.frozen). Running from source shows no splash by design.

Part 1 (splash not coming up + slow first-feedback): the Python splash code is unchanged since #265 (6b335052) -- not a code regression. Prime suspect is the build spec: console=False was flipped in 5f04eec5 (#559), which has known interactions with the PyInstaller Splash in windowed builds; secondary suspect is the PyInstaller 6.x migration. The "many seconds with no feedback" is a symptom of the missing splash, not a separate defect (no Python reorder helps). Routing question: did you see "no splash" in a packaged .exe, or running from source? From source it is expected (no bug); from the .exe it is a build-spec bisect.

Parts 2 + 3 (rotating quick-tips + progress bar): new feature. Tips hook cleanly at lumaviewpro.py:112 via pyi_splash.update_text() + a random choice over a tips data file. A graphical progress bar is M-L (the splash is text-only); milestone-text via repeated update_text() is the cheap first cut.

Status: analyzed; bug half routes on the exe-vs-source question; tips/progress bar are new-feature scope.

[ericweiner]

Routing resolved

Reporter confirms the splash was observed running from source, not from a packaged .exe.

Bug half: works as designed. The splash is a PyInstaller bootloader splash (pyi_splash), and every touch-point is guarded by sys.frozen. There is no splash when running from source -- by design, not a regression. No code change for the "splash not coming up" report.

Remaining ask is new-feature scope (parked): rotating quick-tips + a startup progress indicator. Tips hook cleanly at lumaviewpro.py:112 via pyi_splash.update_text(); a graphical progress bar is M-L (the splash is text-only), milestone-text via repeated update_text() is the cheap first cut. Parked as a feature; will pick up when prioritized.

Disposition: bug half = works-as-designed (source run); tips/progress = parked new-feature.