Splash Screen waiting until thread finishes

Question

I still have a problem with the splash screen. I don\'t want to use the property SC.TopMost=true.

Now my application scenario is as follows:

Answer 1

You really should give more details about your problem. I could be completely wrong, but I'm going to take a shot in the dark. From what I'm imagining is going on and you want, you want the splash screen to show, do some processing in another thread, then the splash screen to go away when finished.

To do this, you're going to want to move the GetFromServer() call to a BackgroundWorker. Then move the

    this.Hide();
    _serverData = new ArrayList();
    _thisData.Add(_allServerNarrators);
    _thisData.Add(_serverNarrators);

code to the BackgroundWorker_RunWorkerCompleted event handler.

To use the BackgroundWorker:

1) Initialize the BackGroundWorker

  BackgroundWorker myWorker = new BackgroundWorker();

2) Add event handlers

  myWorker.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(myWorker_DoWork);
  //put the work you want done in this one

  myWorker.RunWorkerCompleted += 
      new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(myWorker_RunWorkerCompleted);
  //this gets fired when the work is finished

3) Add code to the event handlers.

4) Call myWorker.RunWorkerAsync() to start working.

As a separate note, you don't seem to be doing anything with the ArrayList that you're passing to the splash screen's constructor. Is this intended?