Greatly improved application startup time by removing a lot of unnecessary splash screen re-rasterizations.

es-app/src/main.cpp

@@ -648,8 +648,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 
     window->pushGui(ViewController::getInstance());
 
-    bool splashScreen = Settings::getInstance()->getBool("SplashScreen");
+    bool splashScreen {Settings::getInstance()->getBool("SplashScreen")};
-    bool splashScreenProgress = Settings::getInstance()->getBool("SplashScreenProgress");
 
     InputManager::getInstance().parseEvent(event);
     if (event.type == SDL_QUIT)
@@ -674,9 +673,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 #endif
 
     if (splashScreen) {
-        std::string progressText = "Loading...";
+        std::string progressText {"Loading system config..."};
-        if (splashScreenProgress)
-            progressText = "Loading system config...";
         window->renderLoadingScreen(progressText);
     }
 
@@ -720,7 +717,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
                      << "\"";
     }
 
-    if (splashScreen && splashScreenProgress)
+    if (splashScreen)
         window->renderLoadingScreen("Done");
 
     // Open the input configuration GUI if the flag to force this was passed from the command line.

es-app/src/views/ViewController.cpp

@@ -945,8 +945,7 @@ void ViewController::preload()
 
     for (auto it = SystemData::sSystemVector.cbegin(); it != SystemData::sSystemVector.cend();
          ++it) {
-        if (Settings::getInstance()->getBool("SplashScreen") &&
+        if (Settings::getInstance()->getBool("SplashScreen")) {
-            Settings::getInstance()->getBool("SplashScreenProgress")) {
             mWindow->renderLoadingScreen(
                 "Loading '" + (*it)->getFullName() + "' (" +
                 std::to_string(std::distance(SystemData::sSystemVector.cbegin(), it) + 1) + "/" +

es-core/src/Settings.cpp

@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ namespace
         "DebugGrid",
         "DebugText",
         "DebugImage",
-        "SplashScreenProgress",
         "ScraperFilter"
         // clang-format on
     };
@@ -296,7 +295,6 @@ void Settings::setDefaults()
     mBoolMap["DebugGrid"] = {false, false};
     mBoolMap["DebugText"] = {false, false};
     mBoolMap["DebugImage"] = {false, false};
-    mBoolMap["SplashScreenProgress"] = {true, true};
     mIntMap["ScraperFilter"] = {0, 0};
 }
 

es-core/src/Window.cpp

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Window::Window() noexcept
 Window::~Window()
 {
     delete mBackgroundOverlay;
+    delete mSplash;
 
     // Delete all our GUIs.
     while (peekGui())
@@ -112,6 +113,8 @@ bool Window::init()
     ResourceManager::getInstance().reloadAll();
 
     mHelp = new HelpComponent;
+    mSplash = new ImageComponent;
+
     mBackgroundOverlay = new ImageComponent;
     mBackgroundOverlayOpacity = 0.0f;
 
@@ -122,6 +125,11 @@ bool Window::init()
         mDefaultFonts.push_back(Font::get(FONT_SIZE_LARGE));
     }
 
+    mSplash->setResize(Renderer::getScreenWidth() * 0.6f, 0.0f);
+    mSplash->setImage(":/graphics/splash.svg");
+    mSplash->setPosition((Renderer::getScreenWidth() - mSplash->getSize().x) / 2.0f,
+                         (Renderer::getScreenHeight() - mSplash->getSize().y) / 2.0f * 0.6f);
+
     mBackgroundOverlay->setImage(":/graphics/frame.png");
     mBackgroundOverlay->setResize(Renderer::getScreenWidth(), Renderer::getScreenHeight());
 
@@ -598,13 +606,7 @@ void Window::renderLoadingScreen(std::string text)
     mRenderer->setMatrix(trans);
     mRenderer->drawRect(0.0f, 0.0f, Renderer::getScreenWidth(), Renderer::getScreenHeight(),
                         0x000000FF, 0x000000FF);
-
+    mSplash->render(trans);
-    ImageComponent splash(true);
-    splash.setImage(":/graphics/splash.svg");
-    splash.setResize(Renderer::getScreenWidth() * 0.6f, 0.0f);
-    splash.setPosition((Renderer::getScreenWidth() - splash.getSize().x) / 2.0f,
-                       (Renderer::getScreenHeight() - splash.getSize().y) / 2.0f * 0.6f);
-    splash.render(trans);
 
     auto& font = mDefaultFonts.at(1);
     TextCache* cache = font->buildTextCache(text, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0x656565FF);

es-core/src/Window.h

@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ private:
     Renderer* mRenderer;
     HelpComponent* mHelp;
     ImageComponent* mBackgroundOverlay;
+    ImageComponent* mSplash;
     float mBackgroundOverlayOpacity;
     std::vector<GuiComponent*> mGuiStack;
     std::vector<std::shared_ptr<Font>> mDefaultFonts;