[python-win32] Win API call to display a BMP/PNG file as a splash screen for a console app?

[Greg Ewing]

>Andrew MacIntyre wrote:
>>Is it possible to draw directly to the desktop?  I vaguely recall reading somewhere that that is how some splash screens are done to avoid the overhead of a window...

Somehow I doubt that. I have a hard time imagining that
displaying a splash screen could be a serious performance
bottleneck! Not the window-creation part of it, anyway.

Although if by "overhead" you mean that some programmer
was too lazy to write the necessary code, I could
probably believe that...

-- 
Greg