BB>Qestion: How do I display a simple messagebox like thing, without any
  >buttons or other controls, that will display a message and will be removed
  >from the screen after some other task (copy files) is complete ?
  >(Delphi 1.0)
Create a small form (for this discussion, say form2), overwrite the SHOW 
procedure, so you can pass it a string, and use that.
BB>Like:
BB>...
  >DisplayMessage;
Becomes: Form2.show('This is the message');
  >...
  >OpenTheFiles;
  >CopyTheFiles;
  >CloseTheFiles;
  >...
  >RemoveMessageFromScreen;
Becomes: Form2.close;
When I was testing this suggestion, I put one Text component on my form2, and 
one image object. I copied the windows info icon, (the blue circle around the 
white '!'), made the form2.caption = 'Information'.
The over written show procedure is:
tForm2.Show(s : string);
begin
        inherited show;
        text1.caption := s;
end;
You could of course expand this to include all the functionality the a 
messagedlg gives you, but this is just a quick example.
=Don=
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