[2005] Graphics to fill the void

[circuits2]

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!

[kleinma]

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?

[kleinma]

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

[circuits2]

Also what do you mean by tooling?

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....

[circuits2]

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

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.

[stimbo]

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

Seems appropriate if the product is builder orientated.

[circuits2]

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

Seems appropriate given the product.

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

[kleinma]

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