Notes splash screen suppression

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Is there a way to suppress the 6.0 splash screen and not make it on theforeground?

Here’s the problem: we are integrating Hummingbird PCDocs with Lotus Notes client.

We wrote it so that when Notes is launched, the login screen comes up for

PCDocs… and then the Notes login comes on afterwards. This was all done

with the C Lotus Notes api (modified from AddInMenu example). This works perfectly with R5… but with R6,

the Notes splash screen hides the PCDocs login until you click on the splash

screen. I can’t z-order the PCDocs screen to the front because I don’t

control the form, but is there a way to control the Notes splash screen by either suppressing it or minimizing it?

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Subject: Notes splash screen suppression

Try launching notes with nlnotes.exe instead of notes.exe

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Subject: Launch NLNOTES.EXE instead of NOTES.EXE - that’s the “quick and dirty” way I know of…

The drawback to this is that NSD doesn’t load.

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Subject: RE: Launch NLNOTES.EXE instead of NOTES.EXE - that’s the “quick and dirty” way I know of…

Huh? What do you mean “NSD doesn’t load” ??

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Subject: QNC/NSD/the crash debugger…

NSD is the debugger thingy that “catches” the fact that Notes crashes and creates the mem dumps (the “error logs”). NSD is used in ND6.

NSD is the “son” of QNC (“Quincy”). QNC is the crash debugger thingy used in versions prior to ND6, which created mem dumps called RIP files. QNC is the Medical Examiner for Notes deaths (why do you think they’re called RIP files?).

If you load NLNOTES.EXE instead of NOTES.EXE, then the splash screen doesn’t load and QNC/NSD aren’t loaded.

Rocky Oliver
Sapphire Oak Technologies
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Subject: I disagree

notes.exe doesn’t “load” nsd. NSD is started by any Notes program1 at the time that it causes an exception. Release 5 used QNC.EXE (aka Quincy) which was optionally installed as the system Just-In-Time (JIT) debugger. When a program caused an exception then the JIT got launched and did its thing. In Release 6 we decided that it was a bit unfriendly to take over the system debugger, so now each program catches the error itself and launches NSD as part of its error handling.

  1. A Notes program is any program that calls NotesInit in some way. It includes nlnotes.exe, nserver.exe, all server addins, all Notes API programs, etc …
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Subject: For all you non US visitors - Quincy was a TV program where the main character was a Medical examiner (looks a dead bodies to determine cause of death)