Martin,
I made today this sample below .
I hope it helps?
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\\\needs on form 1 one button and three textboxes
Private WithEvents frm1 As Form2
Public Delegate Sub Frm1Handler(ByVal message As String)
Private WithEvents frm2 As Form2
Dim MyThread As System.Threading.Thread
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim timer1 As New System.Windows.Forms.Timer
AddHandler timer1.Tick, AddressOf mytimer1
TextBox1.Text = "0"
timer1.Enabled = True
timer1.Interval = 400
Dim timer2 As New System.Windows.Forms.Timer
End Sub
Public Sub mytimer1(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
TextBox1.Text = (CInt(TextBox1.Text) + 1).ToString
DirectCast(sender, System.Windows.Forms.Timer).Enabled = True
End Sub
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
frm1 = New Form2
frm1.itstop = Me.Top
frm1.itsleft = Me.Left + 200
frm1.Text = "Extra thread"
MyThread = New System.Threading.Thread(AddressOf frm1.Show)
MyThread.Start()
frm2 = New Form2
frm2.itstop = Me.Top
frm2.itsleft = Me.Left + 400
frm2.Text = "In own thread"
frm2.Show()
End Sub
Protected Sub Frm1Ready(ByVal message As String)
Me.BeginInvoke(New Frm1Handler(AddressOf Frm1HandlerSub), New
Object() {message})
End Sub
Public Sub Frm1HandlerSub(ByVal message As String)
TextBox2.Text = message
frm1.Close()
MyThread.Abort()
End Sub
Private Sub frm2ready(ByVal message As String) _
Handles frm2.form2ready
TextBox3.Text = message
frm2.Dispose()
End Sub
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\\\Needs a form2 with one textbox
Friend Event form2ready(ByVal message As String)
Friend itstop As Integer
Friend itsleft As Integer
Private Sub Form2_Activated(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Activated
Me.Left = itsleft
Me.Top = itstop
Me.BringToFront()
Dim timenext As DateTime = Now.Add(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10))
Do While timenext > Now
TextBox1.Text = Now.TimeOfDay.ToString
Application.DoEvents() 'to show the time
Threading.Thread.Sleep(50)
Me.Opacity -= 0.004
Loop
RaiseEvent form2ready(Now.TimeOfDay.ToString)
End Sub
Private Sub Form2_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal _
e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closing
e.Cancel = True
End Sub
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