Re: Splash Screens , how could something so basic still be hard?

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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:58:42 -0700, Michael B. Trausch <mbt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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That seems to be the approach I am able to find anyway:

http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/FAQ-WinForm-Splash-Screen

This is the most basic implementation of a splash screen one might come up with. It has the unfortunate flaw that aside from getting the splash screen to display once, there is no message pump to allow for further GUI interactions. For example, if the splash screen, or any other part of the UI, winds up needing to be redrawn (e.g. someone drags a window over it), it won't be able to.

http://www.codersource.net/csharp_splash_screen.aspx

This one is marginally more flexible. In particular, it creates the splash screen itself on a different thread, and then uses ShowDialog() (which has a message pump built-in) to display it. On the other hand, other than that it's not a very good example. It has some serious thread mis-use problems (one should not use Thread.Abort() to terminate threads, nor does it make any sense to use Thread.Sleep() to wait for a thread to exit...use Thread.Join() if you absolutely need that behavior, and don't write code that has to wait on a thread to exit if you can at all help it).

Like the first example, it also provides no help to anyone trying to have updates from one thread be presented to the use in a window being shown from another thread.

Pete
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