[2005] Graphics to fill the void

Hey guys! I'm working on a new VB2005 app that is an MDI container which opens one nearly full-screen child at a time, which is then set to:

Child.Dock = Dockstyle.Fill

When the app is started, however, no useful children are open. I decided to open a blank child with some kind of graphic that will give the app a great opening appearance. Kind of like a splash page, but it will remain open until the user does something.

My question is, does anyone have any good ideas for cool graphics that can stand alone on a black background? If it helps, this is a tooling program....


Thanks!

does your software have any sort of logo? that would be good for that.

If not, then perhaps the name of the application made as a graphic in photoshop or fireworks that is done up with some "special effects" so it doesn't just look like some plain text...

Also what do you mean by tooling?

also, you don't need a blank child, you can draw right on the MDI parent background....

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Originally Posted by kleinma

Also what do you mean by tooling?

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Sorry, I should have been more specific. It's for electrical hand tools. That's as specific as I can get without breaching security. This app doesn't have a real logo so I can't use that. I thought about displaying the name of the app but that is incorporated into a tool bar at the top of the parent form. Is it safe to use something like a 3d illusion or some kind of digital rendering? I'm not sure where I'd find one....

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Originally Posted by kleinma

also, you don't need a blank child, you can draw right on the MDI parent background....

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Yeah.... something like a watermark would be cool. But I would have to change the color of the MDI background because the toolbar is black.

A 3-d rendering of a hairy ar$ed builder.

Seems appropriate if the product is builder orientated. :)

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Originally Posted by stimbo

A 3-d rendering of a hairy ar$ed builder.

Seems appropriate given the product. :)

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Interesting suggestion, though I might offend some of the end users with a similar appearance to the rendering! :bigyello:

if the background is black, you don't have to use a black font... you could use white, gray, etc...