loadingGif takes a few seconds to show during installation. Can we make it show immediately?

[GitMurf]

I know this has been discussed in the past but I am curious if windows-installer has/can provide a customization to make the loadingGif show immediately? I have gotten reports that some of my users click the installer several times because they don't think anything is happening. On my Windows system which is pretty beefy I notice the same issue... it takes a few seconds to show the installer Gif and I always wonder whether I properly double clicked my setup.exe or not.

I see here that electron-builder removed the delay in a fork of squirrel: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/374#issuecomment-221329649

I am wondering if this is something windows-installer would consider? Thanks!

Also see here: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/issues/77

[GitMurf]

Or alternatively (which I am fine with implementing) is there any "hook" that I could tap into with the squirrel install process that emits immediately so that I could show my own installer splash screen / GIF and then a hook when it is done so I can hide it? Then I can disable the loadingGif all together and just use my custom splash screen that will show immediately after the user double clicks my setup.exe. Is this possible?

[GitMurf]

Or alternatively (which I am fine with implementing) is there any "hook" that I could tap into with the squirrel install process that emits immediately so that I could show my own installer splash screen / GIF and then a hook when it is done so I can hide it? Then I can disable the loadingGif all together and just use my custom splash screen that will show immediately after the user double clicks my setup.exe. Is this possible?

Although now that I think about this, my plan to show this custom splash screen would be HTML / browser window which I guess wouldn't be available to me yet because Electron isn't installed yet! 🤔 So maybe this isn't an option?