[pde-dev] Incremental loading of GUI elements

[Peter Bracken <bracken@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm not sure exactly what this type of behaviour is called but you can
see it of you open up MS Word. First of all you get your splash screen,
fine.
After that the Window Frame opens up but you still don't have anything
there. As the program loads the GUI elements are filled in.

I would like to replicate this type of behaviour in my RCP application
if possible. The splash screen is no problem, but getting the frame to
appear first before the rest of the GUI is loaded is more difficult. 

The reason I would like to do this is for a perceived performance
increase. As long as there's something going on on the screen the user
doesn't mind. At least that's the theory anyway!

Does anyone know if this is possible using the RCP framework?

Thanks!

Peter