Splash Screen waiting until thread finishes

Question

I still have a problem with the splash screen. I don't want to use the property SC.TopMost=true.

Now my application scenario is as follows:

in progeram.cs:

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
    new SplashScreen(_tempAL);// where _tempAL is an arrayList
    Application.Run(new Form1(_tempAL));
}

in SplashScreen class:

public SplashScreen(ArrayList _Data)
{
    DisplaySplash()
} 
private void DisplaySplash()
{
    this.Show();
    this.TopMost = true;
    this.CenterToScreen();
    this.SetTopLevel(true);

    _allServerNarrators = new string[10];
    for (int i = 0; i < _allServerNarrators.Length; i++)
        _allServerNarrators[i] = null;

    GetFromServer();

    this.Hide();
    _serverData = new ArrayList();
    _thisData.Add(_allServerNarrators);
    _thisData.Add(_serverNarrators);

}
private void GetFromServer()
{
    _serverNarrators = new ArrayList();
    string _file = "Suras.serverNar";

    if (!Directory.Exists("c:\\ASGAQuraan"))
        Directory.CreateDirectory("c:\\ASGAQuraan");

    while (counter < 4 && _serverFiles == null)
    {
        if (Download("c:\\ASGAQuraan", _ftpServerIP, _file))
        {
            StreamReader _strReader = new StreamReader
                         ("c:\\ASGAQuraan\\"+_file,System.Text.Encoding.Default);
            string _line = _strReader.ReadLine();
            string _word;

            while (true)
            {
                while (_line != null)
                {
                    _word = _line.Substring(0, _line.IndexOf("*"));
                    int _narId = Convert.ToInt32(_word);
                    _line = _line.Substring(2);
                    int k = 0;
                    _serverNarratorNode = new ArrayList();
                    while (true)
                    {
                        int ind = _line.IndexOf("*");
                        if (ind > 0 && ind < _line.Length)
                        {
                            string str = _line.Substring(0, (ind));
                            if (k == 0)
                            {
                                _allServerNarrators[_narId] = str;
                                _serverNarratorNode.Add(str);
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                _serverNarratorNode.Add(str);
                            }
                            _line = _line.Substring(ind + 1);
                            k++;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            _line = null;
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                    _serverNarrators.Add(_serverNarratorNode);
                    _serverFiles = "added";
                }
                _line = _strReader.ReadLine();
                if (_line == null)
                {
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        else
            counter++;
    }
}

What I want is something in the splash screen class which waits until the thread finishes.

For more details, please tell me what I need to tell you.

It isn't obvious to me (someone who doesn't program in C#) what the _tempAL stuff is about - it is unused in the Splashscreen class shown. You also have the literal "c:\\ASGAQuraan\\" appear a number of times; that should surely be a named constant rather than repeated. DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself. — Jonathan Leffler
It would have been great if you provided the link to your other question. If you say "I still have the same problem", who should know what problem your speaking of at all, and what "still the same" refers to? I've found it now, as a reference: stackoverflow.com/questions/392787/… — chiccodoro

Hans Passant Hans Passant · Accepted Answer · 2008-12-26T15:11:46

Same question, same answer:

The .NET framework has excellent built-in support for splash screens. Start a new WF project, Project + Add Reference, select Microsoft.VisualBasic. Add a new form, call it frmSplash. Open Project.cs and make it look like this:

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1 {
  static class Program {
    [STAThread]
    static void Main(string[] args) {
      Application.EnableVisualStyles();
      Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
      new MyApp().Run(args);
    }
  }
  class MyApp : WindowsFormsApplicationBase {
    protected override void OnCreateSplashScreen() {
      this.SplashScreen = new frmSplash();
    }
    protected override void OnCreateMainForm() {
      // Do your time consuming stuff here...
      //...
      System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000);
      // Then create the main form, the splash screen will close automatically
      this.MainForm = new Form1();
    }
  }
}

Splash Screen waiting until thread finishes

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