Peter Below's Threaded Splash Screen and Modal Dialogs

Question

I\'m using Peter Below\'s PBThreadedSplashForm to display during application startup. It gets updated as various databases are opened during the creation of the data module (jus

Answer 1

You should be able to fix this by parenting the dialog to the splash screen. Assign the splash screen's HWND to a global variable, and override the dialog's CreateParams method. If the global HWND has a value assign it to the Params.WndParent variable that CreateParams passes in. The fact that they're from different threads shouldn't matter, since it's just dealing with the HWND, not a VCL object, and Windows will handle the synchronization.