>>Is there any way, in VFP 5.0, to create a form with no title bar? I'm trying to make a "splash" screen that will display while my program initializes since this takes some time. I'd like to get rid of the title bar on the window.
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>One way to do it is to create the splash screen in a Container class. Say you call it cntSplashScreen You can pop it onto the screen in the following way...
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>SET CLASSLIB TO whatever.vcx ADDITIVE
>WITH _SCREEN
> .AddObject("cntSplash", "cntSplashScreen")
> .cntSplash.Left = ( .Width - .cntSplashScreen.Width ) / 2 && Center splash screen
> .cntSplash.Top = (.Height - .cntSplashScreen.Height ) / 2
> .cntSplash.Visible = .T.
>ENDWITH
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>and when you're done,
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>RELEASE _SCREEN.cntSplash
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>HTH!
> - Gino M.

Hey, GREAT idea! I can't do it that way though, because we hide that VFP main window immediately, so _SCREEN isn't visible. I didn't know, though, that you could add objects it. I'll keep that in mind. :)