Comments on: Ant’s cool morale booster: splash task

By: Gem Cameron

Gem Cameron — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:24:08 +0000

I'm struggling with this, I can't seem to get any image displayed other than the default - I even tried changing that for something else!!

I've got a pirate gif - does the size matter?

Ta!

Gem

By: Elliot Shepherd

Elliot Shepherd — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:16:52 +0000

Just a little addition to what Joe said, you can check the OS (we develop on osx and windows, build on headless linux boxes…) which might solve the problem sometimes =)

By: Joe Normal

Joe Normal — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:44:31 +0000

Well, I agree that this can be a real eye candy and be used to make people laugh. But today I really had a hard time surviving the inquisition of our build manager who told me that the splash task I added to our buildfile caused the build process to fail. This was because we use a headless display for our builds. It crashed because it couldn’t find the X11 Libraries and the necessary display resources. So take good care of when and where to use, or it can cause you a real pain in the ass….and result in a lower morale

By: Matt Quail

Matt Quail — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:06:42 +0000

Yeah, we had the same problem (it is a little annoying)

By: Joel Hockey

Joel Hockey — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 04:57:10 +0000

I just added splash to my build file and found that by default it pauses for 5 seconds to show the splash. This was pretty annoying. You can change this with the 'showduration' attribute though.