Quote Originally Posted by penagate
The Timer. I don't understand why you need a timer for this anyway, maybe I'm being thick.
No, you aren't thick...he wants to provide two ways of opening his app from the splash screen.

1. The traditional way of just clicking an Ok button on the splash screen.

2. If nothing is done within X amount of time, the splash screen closes all by itself and calls his login form...hence the use of the timer.