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I'm not able to find anything in that regard over at delphipraxis.net, and the only thing I can find here is

No. But while you're peeking at the message queue you might as well do something useful with it: procedure BusyBusyBusy; begin // Allow threads to synchronize CheckSynchronize; Msg.message := 0; try // Process cursor update messages for this window so cursor stays responsive while (PeekMessage(Msg, Handle, WM_SETCURSOR, WM_SETCURSOR, PM_REMOVE)) do begin if (Msg.message = WM_QUIT) then exit; DispatchMessage(Msg); end; // Process paint messages for all windows so UI can repaint itself while PeekMessage(Msg, 0, WM_PAINT, WM_PAINT, PM_REMOVE) or PeekMessage(Msg, 0, WM_ERASEBKGND, WM_ERASEBKGND, PM_REMOVE) or PeekMessage(Msg, 0, DXM_SKINS_POSTREDRAW, DXM_SKINS_POSTREDRAW, PM_REMOVE) or PeekMessage(Msg, 0, WM_PRINT, WM_PRINT, PM_REMOVE) or PeekMessage(Msg, 0, WM_PRINTCLIENT, WM_PRINTCLIENT, PM_REMOVE) do begin if (Msg.message = WM_QUIT) then exit; DispatchMessage(Msg); end; PeekMessage(Msg, 0, WM_NULL, WM_NULL, PM_NOREMOVE); // Avoid window ghosting due to unresponsiveness on Vista+ finally if (Msg.message = WM_QUIT) then begin PostQuitMessage(Msg.wParam); Application.Terminate; end; end; end; The above was snipped from existing code so might need to be tweaked slightly.

Sure, done.

Have you considered to call several EXE files in the umbrella app ? They seem not be related much yet, so that could be a way to be faster.

Guys, the german DelphiPraxis has a no-cheat-tool-policy. I'm pretty sure that applies to the english version here as well. So...sniffing is almost OK, modifying must be discussed elsewhere, please.

The painful thing about this experimentation is that it wipes my editor color selection each time I try something. I simply can't understand some Embarcadero's UI choices 😞