[RESOLVED] Splash Screen Best Way

Hello

Need some help here, i don't know the best way to do what i want.

I need that my application have a splash screen, this splash must update a label with messages that i sent from the main form constructor, in the end of the constructor i need to close the splash, the splash must accept key presses, so if the user press some keys I'll show the login screen, by default the login it's the same of the machine, and this is useful for debugging/tests purposes...

Basically i need to send text to another thread, and get a boolean value from the same thread to know if the user pressed the correct combination of keys to show the login form.

How can i do this?

like this:

in the splash form

Code:

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Delegate Sub SetTextCallback(ByVal msg As String)

    Public Sub UpdateWorkLabel(ByVal msg As String)

        If lblWork.InvokeRequired Then
            ' It's on a different thread, so use Invoke.
            Dim d As New SetTextCallback(AddressOf UpdateWorkLabel)
            Invoke(d, New Object() {msg})
        Else
            if msg = "HIDEME" Then
                Hide()
                Close()
            Else
                ' It's on the same thread, no need for Invoke.
                lblWork.Text = msg
            End If

        End If

        Application.DoEvents()
    End Sub

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in main form

Code:

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Dim fs As New frmSplash
Dim t As New Thread(AddressOf fs.ShowDialog)
t.IsBackground = True
t.Priority = ThreadPriority.AboveNormal
t.Name = "Splash form"
t.Start()

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and then any time in mainform_load you can do something like this:

Code:

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fs.UpdateWorkLabel("Processing foo")
<do some work>
fs.UpdateWorkLabel("Processing bar")
<do some work>

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when you are all done loading and want to hide the splash screen, do this:

Code:

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fs.UpdateWorkLabel("HIDEME")

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extending that to add a boolean flag is easy enough: just declare it and check it whenever you need to in your main form and act appropriately

Thanks
I almost solved the problem with similar approach the only thing that i didn't use was the delegate, the final code that i'm using:
Splash Form:

vb.net Code:

Public Class MySplash
    Public Event KeyPressed()
    Delegate Sub SetTextCallBack(ByVal message As String)
 
    Public Sub UpdateMessage(ByVal message As String)
        If LabelMessage.InvokeRequired Then 'Different thread
            Dim d As New SetTextCallBack(AddressOf UpdateMessage)
            Invoke(d, New Object() {message})
        Else
            LabelMessage.Text = message
        End If
    End Sub
 
 
    Private Sub Form2_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
        If e.Shift Then RaiseEvent KeyPressed()
    End Sub
End Class

MainForm Code:

vb.net Code:

Public Class MainForm
    Private splash As MySplash
    Private threadSP As Threading.Thread
 
    Private Sub ShowLoginForm()
        If LoginForm.ShowDialog <> Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
            MsgBox("Login Failed", MsgBoxStyle.Information)
            End
        End If
        threadSP.Abort()
    End Sub
 
    Public Sub New()
        splash = New MySplash
        splash.TopMost = True
        threadSP = New Threading.Thread(New Threading.ThreadStart(AddressOf splash.ShowDialog))
        AddHandler splash.KeyPressed, AddressOf ShowLoginForm
 
        threadSp.Start()
 
        'Task1
        splash.UpdateMessage("Task1........")
        Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)
        'Task2
        splash.UpdateMessage("Task2........")
        Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)
        'Task3
        splash.UpdateMessage("Task3........")
        Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000)
 
        ' This call is required by the designer.
        InitializeComponent()
        ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call.
 
        threadSp.Abort()
    End Sub
End Class

excellent