Pop up a form with a temporary message

[Michael A. Covington]

I want to define a form that has a textbox on it, and at some stages in my
program:

- create the form
- put a message in the textbox
- show the form
- do a time-consuming computation
- close the form

Currently, the form appears at the right time but the textbox always comes
out blank. What order should I be doing things in, and are some Update or
Refresh calls needed?

Thanks to all!

 

[Guest]

There are a number of ways to skin this particular cat. One way:
Create an overload of the Form ctor that accepts a string message parameter
that gets stored in a private string field in the Form class.
In Form_Load, just set the Text value of the TextBox to the string message
field's value. When the form is shown, the text should be visible.
Peter

 

[Michael A. Covington]

Many thanks. I'll try that.

There are a number of ways to skin this particular cat. One way:
Create an overload of the Form ctor that accepts a string message
parameter
that gets stored in a private string field in the Form class.
In Form_Load, just set the Text value of the TextBox to the string message
field's value. When the form is shown, the text should be visible.
Peter

 

[Michael A. Covington]

It works if I do an Application.DoEvents() right after formPopUp.Show().
Thanks.