xbmc/xbmc — pull request #514 by pieh (2011-10-30 08:59:25+00:00)
Title: Allow displaying text on splash screen

This PR adds possibility to display text message on splash screen. This can be used to notify user about whatever time-consuming tasks we may be doing on startup (like f.e. database update - what, I think, was reason I was asked to cook this up).

To show message we call

// in case we build text string using string::format()
g_application.getApplicationMessenger().SetSplashMessage("some text");
// localized string
g_application.getApplicationMessenger().SetSplashMessage(12345);

And it looks like this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28899396/splash_text.png (text is rendered centered in area below splash image)