On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 11:29:23 -0500, "James" <ja...@productionautomation.net> wrote:
>The Lazarus version is mostly working in Lazarus, but instead of everything >happening before the form is loaded, is there a way I could make the form >first, then just start processing everything, so that my messages I send to > memo1 show up as it's processing? I'm guessing I need to move my program >from On-create to somewhere else so it runs after the memo box is showing... >but I don't know where I would move it to. >Any suggestions? > In a Lazarus GUI program you can use a timer to handle this. Just set it to say 1s delay and thenb enable it in Form.OnCreate: TfrmMain = class(TForm) ... Timer1: TTimer; ... procedure TfrmMain.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); begin Timer1.Interval := 500; //Default is 1000 ms Timer1.Enabled := true; end; procedure TfrmMain.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject); begin //Put your code here Application.Terminate; //The application will disappear from view... end; If you want your form to be responsive you also need this inside loops in your program: Application.ProcessMessages; Otherwise the form will feel like a dead brick while the Timer function runs... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal