close splash when gui finishes loading

hide fishy window until its ready to show
draw splash screen above fishy window

fishy/__main__.py

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def initialize(window_to_hide):
 def main():
     active.init()
     config.init()
-    splash.start()
+    finish_splash = splash.start()
     hotkey.init()
 
     print("launching please wait...")
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def main():
         return
 
     bot = EngineEventHandler(lambda: gui_window)
-    gui_window = GUI(lambda: bot)
+    gui_window = GUI(lambda: bot, finish_splash)
 
     hotkey.start()
 
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ def main():
     gui_window.start()
     active.start()
 
-    bot.start_event_handler()
+    bot.start_event_handler()   # main thread loop
+
     config.stop()
     hotkey.stop()
     active.stop()

fishy/gui/gui.py

@@ -25,9 +25,10 @@ class EngineRunner:
 
 
 class GUI:
-    def __init__(self, get_engine: Callable[[], IEngineHandler]):
+    def __init__(self, get_engine: Callable[[], IEngineHandler], on_ready: Callable):
         self.funcs = GUIFuncs(self)
         self.get_engine = get_engine
+        self.on_ready = on_ready
 
         self.config = config
         self._start_restart = False

fishy/gui/main_gui.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ def _create(gui: 'GUI'):
     engines = gui.engines
 
     gui._root = ThemedTk(theme="equilux", background=True)
+    gui._root.attributes('-alpha', 0.0)
     gui._root.title("Fishybot for Elder Scrolls Online")
     gui._root.iconbitmap(helper.manifest_file('icon.ico'))
 
@@ -138,6 +139,9 @@ def _create(gui: 'GUI'):
 
     gui._root.protocol("WM_DELETE_WINDOW", set_destroy)
     gui._destroyed = False
+    gui._root.update()
+    gui.on_ready()
+    gui._root.after(0, gui._root.attributes, "-alpha", 1.0)
 
     while True:
         gui._root.update()

fishy/gui/splash.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+import logging
 import time
 import tkinter as tk
-from multiprocessing import Process
+from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
 
 from PIL import Image, ImageTk
 
@@ -8,12 +9,14 @@ from fishy.helper import helper
 from fishy.helper.config import config
 
 
-def show(win_loc):
+def show(win_loc, q):
+    logging.debug("started splash process")
     dim = (300, 200)
     top = tk.Tk()
 
     top.overrideredirect(True)
     top.lift()
+    top.attributes('-topmost', True)
 
     top.title("Loading...")
     top.resizable(False, False)
@@ -32,9 +35,20 @@ def show(win_loc):
     top.geometry("{}x{}+{}+{}".format(dim[0], dim[1], int(loc[0]) + int(dim[0] / 2), int(loc[1]) + int(dim[1] / 2)))
 
     top.update()
-    time.sleep(3)
+    q.get()
+    time.sleep(0.2)
     top.destroy()
+    logging.debug("ended splash process")
+
+
+def create_finish(q):
+    def finish():
+        q.put("stop")
+
+    return finish
 
 
 def start():
-    Process(target=show, args=(config.get("win_loc"),)).start()
+    q = Queue()
+    Process(target=show, args=(config.get("win_loc"), q,)).start()
+    return create_finish(q)