One thing you can do additionally,in order to let your app fire up while the splash is showing but still let the splash show long enough to meet your advertising needs, is to take a SECONDS() measurement right after splashing, then take it again right before your READ EVENTS, and if less than X seconds has passed (where you want the splash to show for at least X seconds), then enter a delay loop until X seconds has actually passed.

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>I turned this into a class object and place it into my code like this;
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>***Main.prg
>***Splash screen.
>o_splash = CREATEOBJ('csplash')
>o_splash.SHOW()
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>***Place setup code here. Menus, Vars, SETs, ect...
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>RELEASE o_splash
>READ EVENTS