>>I need to display a splash screen in the background while a form is loading. The form has a complicated SQL Server query that can take some time to get results back. Is there something in the framework to handle this?
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>You don't really need a framework peice, just create a form with out a title bar:
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oSplash = createobject('splasher')
>oSplash.Show()
>wait window "run the form" timeout 5
>oSplash.Hide()
>DEFINE CLASS splasher AS form
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>	Top = 0
>	Left = 0
>	Height = 172
>	Width = 377
>	DoCreate = .T.
>	Caption = "Form5"
>	TitleBar = 0
>	Name = "splasher"
>	AutoCenter = .T.
>
>	ADD OBJECT label1 AS label WITH ;
>		FontBold = .T., ;
>		FontSize = 40, ;
>		FontUnderline = .T., ;
>		WordWrap = .T., ;
>		Alignment = 2, ;
>		Caption = "Big Flashy Splash!", ;
>		Height = 144, ;
>		Left = 10, ;
>		Top = 16, ;
>		Width = 349, ;
>		ForeColor = RGB(0,0,128), ;
>		Name = "Label1"
>ENDDEFINE

I assume I would call the splash form from the menu option before I call my main form like below

My Menu Pad.Click()
doform("mysplash")
doform("myform")


Where would I remove the flash screen? Somewhere inside MYFORM or back in the menu.click method? You hide the splash screen, wouldn't I want to release it to remove it from memory? Thanks for your clarification.