Can anyone fill me in on how to "repaint" a form during a lengthy query?
Sometimes a query takes 20-30 seconds to run, and if I click to another
program on my taskbar then back, the entire Delphi application screen
appears white.  No controls are there until the query finishes, then the
form repaints itself.

Have I coded something wrong?  This has always been a problem with my Delphi
apps I just haven't found the answer yet.

--Eric
Peak Technologies

Because you crossposted this in so many groups, I'm allmost sure you'll miss
it, but anyway:
Open your query in separate thread. If you open it in main thread, it
freezes until the query executes.

TQueryThread=class(TThread)
      Query : TQuery;
      Owner:TSomeForm;
      constructor Create(AOwner:TSomeForm;AQuery:TQuery);
      procedure Execute; override;
end;

constructor TQueryThread.Create(AOwner:TSomeForm;AQuery:TQuery);
begin
  Query := AQuery;
  Owner := AOwner;
  inherited Create(false);
end;

procedure TQueryThread.Execute;
begin
  try
    Query.Open;
  except
    on E:Exception do begin
      Owner.ThreadException := E;
      Synchronize(Owner.HandleException);
    end;
  end;
end;

Note that you ALLWAYS have to trap exceptions in threads.
Instead of calling AQuery.Open directly, you create the thread to open it:
T := TQueryThread.Create(Self,AQuery);

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