Hey Al,
I too have experienced some major problems when attempting to
display a Splash Screen form using Delphi 2009. Mine have been quite
different than yours, but there may be a connection.
In one particular application, the Splash form was to display for 6
seconds and show shareware use information until the app is registered.
Afterwards, a checkbox allows the Splash form to be disabled. However in
both situations, and no matter how, when, or where within the dpr code I
create it, the app's MainForm, which is supposed to remain invisible and
without a taskbar icon, becomes visible and does appear on the taskbar!
Very frustrating, and requiring a completely different approach than I
originally designed!
I've come to the conclusion that Delphi is in some way getting
confused as to which of the two forms created within the dpr truly may be
the MainForm, and is altering basic properties toward some default settings
even though autocreate forms is False in the Project options.
And here I thought Unicode was going to give me trouble!
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-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-boun...@elists.org [mailto:delphi-boun...@elists.org] On Behalf
Of Alan Colburn
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:31 PM
To: delphi@elists.org
Subject: Unable to Get Handle On Monitor
Hi folks --
When I start my app with:
Data:=TData.Create(Application);
Application.Title := 'Performance Gradebook';
Application.CreateForm(TfrmMain, frmMain);
Application.Run;
everything works fine. (Data is a DataModule.)
However, when I add a splash screen I run into problems:
Data:=TData.Create(Application);
frmSplashScreen := TfrmSplashScreen.Create(nil);
try
frmSplashScreen.Show;
Application.Initialize;
frmSplashScreen.Update;
Application.Title := 'Performance Gradebook';
Application.CreateForm(TfrmMain, frmMain);
frmSplashScreen.Hide;
finally
frmSplashScreen.Free;
end;
Application.Run;
The problem relates specifically to users with dual monitors--see the
subject line; it's in the Forms unit in the TCustomForm.SetWindowToMonitor
block. I've never really used two monitors before, so I'm kind of lost in
terms of what is happening. Do you have any thoughts?
Thanks, as always -- Al C.
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