Changeset 4047 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Frontends

Timestamp:

Aug 6, 2007 8:31:37 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

GUI: Get rid of the annoying delay taking place in the VM Console window when the menu bar (or any action from that menu bar) is activated for the first time.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/main.cpp (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/main.cpp

@@ -114 +114 @@
 }
 
-int main( int argc, char ** argv )
+int main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
     /* initialize VBox Runtime */
@@ -135 +135 @@
 
     QIApplication a (argc, argv);
+
+#ifdef Q_WS_WIN
+    /* Drag in the sound drivers and DLLs early to get rid of the delay taking
+     * place when the main menu bar (or any action from that menu bar) is
+     * activated for the first time. This delay is especially annoying if it
+     * happens when the VM is executing in real mode (which gives 100% CPU
+     * load and slows down the load process that happens on the main GUI
+     * thread to several seconds). */
+    PlaySound (NULL, NULL, 0);
+#endif
 
 #ifndef RT_OS_DARWIN