Xbase++ needs some time to locate, load and initialise a number of DLLs, as well as initialising it's environment and runtime system. Consequently there can be a significant delay between double-clicking an app's icon and when the application displays it's first dialog. This utility is a tiny C++ program which displays a loading message on the screen, launches your application, and when your application displays it's first dialog, splash.exe will kill itself.

The zip file contains a readme, splash.exe and full source.

This update contains v2.0 which allows the executable and window title to be declared on the command line, rather than having to edit the source and recompile.