This article illustrates a technique for creating an application's opening screen ― also called a welcome screen ― that is user-friendly and customizable. Examples of these can be found in the latest Borland and Microsoft development environments (see Figure 1). Upon startup the user is presented with an HTML document that lists hyperlinks to the most recent project files, available actions for starting a new project, and links to the Web. Actions initiated by clicking on these hyperlinks or buttons are captured and handled by the application. This article presents a small text editor application that utilizes this approach.
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