Where do I put functions and procedures I want to run at startup?

Hi,
What procedures/functions?
If the procedures/functions you're talking about are in standalone units then make sure you have included them in your project source file's (*.dpr) uses statement and then simply do all the processing there.

Example:

Project source:

program Project1;

uses
  Forms,
  Unit1 in 'Unit1.pas' {Form1},
  MyUnit in 'MyUnit.pas'; // here's your unit!
{$R *.RES}

begin
  Application.ShowMainForm := False;
  Application.Initialize;
  Application.CreateForm(TForm1, Form1);
  if ( MyUnit.CheckParameters ) then
  begin
    Application.ShowMainForm := True;
  end;
  Application.Run;
end.

Standalone unit:

unit MyUnit;

interface

function CheckParameters: Boolean;

implementation

uses
  SysUtils;

function CheckParameters: Boolean;
begin
  Result := CompareText( ParamStr( 1 ), '/hidden' ) <> 0
end;

end.

Explain further...!

/// John

I am calling functions and procedures from both the main form(unit) and standalone forms(units). They are the same functions and procdures I normally call when the form is not hidden, so all the units are in my uses statement. It looks like I get the error when one of the procdures attemts to close the application using Close; Is this not allowed from within the OnCreate event or should I be closing in another way?

Also when calling a procedure from OnCreate that tries to access ParamCount, the value for ParamCount says "inacessable value".

Hi,
Use Halt. Close is not available in the OnCreate event.
The reason you can't see ParamCount when debugging is simply because it is a function and not an integer value. It still works (I have tested it).
Sometimes when you get "inacessable value" while debugging is because the awesome object pascal compiler has optimized it out since there is no need for that value at the moment.

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var
  cParam: Integer;
begin
  cParam := ParamCount;
  Caption := IntToStr( cParam );
  if ( MyUnit.CheckParameters ) then
  begin
    Application.ShowMainForm := True;
  end else
  begin
    Halt;
  end;
end;

thanks, it's all working now. Please answer the question to get credit.