Re: Newbie Question: Doing tasks after form displays 'on load'

Perhaps a better solution (employed by many other apps) is to display a
"splash screen" while your app is loading. Ferret (or Google :) around
for "splash screen" and you'll find several examples.

You can even use a background thread for your initialization
operations, so that your splash screen gracefully repaints itself,
secure in the knowledge that your user can't press any buttons or do
anything to your form before you're ready, becuase you haven't
displayed it yet.

.