Splash screen and so on

Hello Erwan,

To override the default SALOME resources (like spash, logo, application title, icon, etc) in SALOME 3.2.x you have to do the following:

1) create LightApp_images.po and LightApp_msg_en.po resource files and redefine text/image resources in this files:

• LightApp_images.po

        APP_DEFAULT_ICO is an application icon
        ABOUT is an image used in the application's About dialog box
        ABOUT_SPLASH is an image for the splash screen
        APP_BASE_LOGO is an image base logo (usually SALOME logo)
        APP_EXTRA_LOGO is an additional application logo (usually application logo)

• LightApp_msg_en.po

        APP_NAME is an application name (main window title)
        APP_VERSION is an application version
        ABOUT_CAPTION is an title of the application's About dialog box
        ABOUT_TITLE is an application full name used in the About dialog box
        ABOUT_VERSION is an appication version information used in the About dialog box
        ABOUT_COPYRIGHT is an application copyright information used in the About dialog box
        ABOUT_LICENSE is an application license information used in the About dialog box
2) Put these files to your application sources directory to be compiled by the Qt msg2qm tool (resulting *.qm files shoud be put to the application's resources directory)
3) Provide the image files (splash, logo, etc) mentioned in the LightApp_images.po file in the application's resources folder
4) In your application's SalomeApp.xml file you need to add the following data:

• section "splash" (for the customization of the splash screen)

 
 
 
 

Only "image" parameter is obligatory, other allow to customize info printed on the splash image and colors for the text and progress bar.

• section "resources"

 

where MYAPP_ROOT_DIR is the root directory of your application.
Section "resources" may also contain additional resources needed for you application.
5) in the environment for your application set SalomeAppConfig variable: your application resources directory should prepend standard ones, e.g.:
export SalomeAppConfig=${MYAPP_ROOT_DIR}/share/salome/resources:${GUI_ROOT_DIR}/share/salome/resources/gui

I checked this with the ALLIANCES application and everything works OK.
One remark only: no doubts this will work with SALOME version 3.2.3 (currently the version 3.2.3pre1 is already issued, and the official version 3.2.3 will come in nearest future). On the previous SALOME versions some problems can be encountered.
Try this please and if you have some problems do not hesitate to ask me.

Regards,
Vadim.