Faster startup about neutralinojs

[hschneider]

Maybe indeed a Win10 issue with WebView initialization:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1185053/msedgewebview2-show-slowly-first-time-in-cold-star

@shalithasuranga : Would make sense to flag this issue for further investigation on GSOC. It might be faster with newer WebView DLLs that still run under Win10. Maybe it only happens when an outdated DLL release is present.

[jerrygreen]

My specs:

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700 CPU @ 3.00GHz
RAM 16.0 GB, DDR4, 2666 Mhz (2 of 4 slots used, each 8 GB)
Windows 10 (22H2)

At the time of my check, the resource consumption was:

CPU 5%
RAM 10/16 GB

Therefore, there's enough resources to use.

I recorded the process, and did verify in a video editor, to see exact time: from loading icon to appear, to the first UI being shown. Here's some more info:

1. Cold start: 2.3 seconds
   

2. Warm start: 1.3 seconds
   

You may note I'm not showing the default blank white screen on start, it's simply due to this approach:

put in config: "hidden": true, then in your application run Neutralino.window.show() asap (inside index.html)

If by saying «GUI» you mean this white blank non-interactive screen, then we're talking about different things.
What I mean by GUI: when actual HTML being visible, like some text etc.

[hschneider]

You can try to install a newer version here:
https://developer.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/webview2/?form=MA13LH#download
The latest one is 122.x. At best choose it from the right hand "Fixed Version" install.
It's recommended to reboot after install.

[hschneider]

Here it shows the GUI with a delay of approx. 0.5 sec. under macOS and Win 11 (virtual machine).
Can you give closer details about your OS and underlying hardware (CPU, RAM) ?

[hschneider]

Strange. Do you have some anti-virus tool running in background?

[jerrygreen]

For you to understand – all other programs are running perfectly fine. Just as always.
I'm not experiencing any system staggers or anything. Nothing «lags».
The program itself works just fine. It's just Neutralino starts it not as fast as I would like to.