From: Roger Pack Date: 2012-06-12T00:59:54+09:00 Subject: Re: ffi - Popping image on top of the screen 15 seconds to load juts sounds broken to me. Maybe you could/should profile your startup time and see what's going on? If you "just" want a dialog of some sort, then FFI could help https://github.com/ffi/ffi/wiki/Windows-Examples "Unicode Popup Dialog (MRI 1.9)" Also NB that with jruby apps you can pass java -Dsplash:yo.png, but that probably doesn't help you much. -roger- -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.