Re: VCL Form inside TThread->Execute

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From: danzer
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:48

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James wrote:
> I would, except that the application that uses this thread form in not a C++ 
> Builder application.  In fact, it does not have its own support for 
> multi-thread, however it does allow dll calls.
> 
> Hence, I decided to wrap up a form object into a thread and place that into 
> a dll.  Then they can create an instance and the form runs.  The reason I 
> need this is because in their main application they may be executing a 
> lengthy database query.  I wanted to provide a progress bar that shows that 
> the application has not hung, but is retrieving data.  They also want to use 
> this when they download files, to indicate things are going well.
> 

Have you considered having the thread do the "length database query" and 
posting status messages to the main application?  I have used this 
method and it works quite well.

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