I have a project which has a main form and some other forms. When the app loads it needs to carry out some tasks and show the results in a modal form on top of the main form. The problem I have is that if I put the call to the function to do the tasks / creates and Show the modal form in the main forms onshow event the modal form appears but the main form does not until the modal form is closed, which is what I would expect to happen. To counter this I have added a timer to the main form and start it on the main forms onshow event the timer calls the function to do the tasks / create and show the modal form. So now the main form appears before the modal form.
However I cannot see this being the best solution and was wondering if anyone could offer a better one.
I am using Delphi 7
Colin