SplashForm - what I have to do?

[JanH]

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. :-(

[glober]

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

[mattias]

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

[Marc]

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.

[JanH]

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