SplashForm - what I have to do?
lazarus / 7-LCL

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JanH · 2006-02-27 11:27

What else I have to do to see a splash form on loading my app? I have
created a form, set its formstyle to fsSplash, put a label on it and
saved it.
But when I start the program, OnShow of this splash form never be
 called. :-(

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glober · 2006-02-28 02:35

Try following this guide:
http://delphi.about.com/od/formsdialogs/a/splashscreen.htm . The only
thing I recommend you change is to replace

     SplashScreen := TSplashScreen.Create(Application);

with

     SplashScreen := TSplashScreen.Create(nil);

This doesn't kill the application under Windows, if you free the
SplashScreen, If I recall corectly.

HTH

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mattias · 2006-02-28 10:58

The Delphi approach will not work on all platforms.

Add this in your .lpr file after the Application.Initialize:

    SplashForm := TSplashForm.Create(nil);
    SplashForm.Show;
    Application.ProcessMessages; // process splash paint message

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Marc · 2006-02-28 11:16

Maybe note to us:

when using SplashScreen := TSplashScreen.Create(Application);

TApplication can check if the form is a splashform and show it and
skip setting it as mainform.

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JanH · 2006-02-28 13:03

thanx for all the help.
I thought there was a mechanism wich shows a splash form
automatically.