Making a splash screen

Question

The concept of a splash screen doesn\'t strike me as something that should be so complicated, but I\'m having trouble getting the whole splash screen painted.

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Answer 1

You are displaying the splash screen and checking your database on the same thread. The thread can only do one thing at a time.

A quick and cheap way to fix this is to have loadAndCheckDatabase() call Application.DoEvents() periodically. However that's a cheap fix.

You really want to run loadAndCheckDatabase() on its own thread, a BackgroundWorker is a nice simple way to do this.