ID: 20139, Threaded Splashscreen for Delphi

by Peter Below Email: Anonymous

Shows how to implement a splash screen running in a secondary thread

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Updated on Sat, 07 Jun 2003 00:44:11 GMT
Originally uploaded on Sun, 01 Jun 2003 03:44:39 GMT
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Description

Applications frequently use a splash screen to entertain the user while the application performs some lengthy startup processing. If this processing prevents the main thread from processing messages the splash screen will not properly repaint, however, if other windows are dragged over it.

This can be solved by creating the splash screen in the context of a secondary thread. Since the VCL is not thread-safe this has to be done using pure API calls.

This posting provides a component that can be used to configure the splash screen from the main thread. The components Show method will then create a secondary thread which shows the actual window. The window can have a status bar to show messages in. The design-time behaviour of this component has not been tested, it is mainly intended to be created in code. The demo application provided shows how to do this, and how to use a genuine form as a template for the splash screen.

The demo has been tested with Delphi 6 and 7 only. To compile it with older versions you will have to modify the code: remove all references to the Variants unit, add Forms to the Uses clause of PBThreadedSplashscreenU.pas, define a missing Windows style constant (WS_EX_NOACTIVATE = $08000000;).

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