Hi,

the release date of my database app gets closer and I have
to to some finetuning.

I need to show the user a progress bar while the app starts
as this takes 5-10 sec. Most of the time is consumed by loading
the BDE and initializing/creating all the objects on my
Mainform.

But how can I update the progress bar? How do I know how much
of the BDE is loaded, how many objects are created and so on?

(Showing a splash screen is no problem).

Appreciating your help, W.L.

Robert

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HEY - here is a really neat idea - which I use.  Put a bunch of checkboxes
on the splash, and name each one - so you might have:

Main Form Creating
Database Engine Initialising
Creating Input Forms
etc...

In the project source file, just stick a checkbox1.Checked in between every
so many form creations :)  Play around with it until you have a pretty good
spacing.  As the other guy that replied said "they won't know the
difference anyway" :)

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 Werner Lehmann wrote in article <33944197.7...@informatik.uni-kiel.de>...

Werner,

1. Put a TGauge on the splash screen. Lets say there are 10 steps involved
in your initialization routines. Set Gauge.MaxValue to 10 and
Splash.Gauge1.progress:= 0; then after each step use
Splash.Gauge1.progress:= i; inc(i); with i being a global. If your tables
are all initially closed then the BDE is initialized when the first table
is opened.  Since this is probably done in your form.OnCreate procedure,
put some Splash.Gauge1.progress:= i; inc(i); in strategic places there as
well as in the dpr.

OR:

2. use a timer with some graphic animation on the splash form like MS does
for file operations done in the shell.

HTH,

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Paul Motyer
Soft Stuff, Croydon, Australia, 3136

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