splash form, how

[Bob Dufour]

Ho do you do a simple splash form in .NEt that does not stay on screen
behind the next form that is shown

If I do
Sub main()
Dim mysplash as new frmsplash
mysplash.show
Dim MyOtherfrm as new frmOther
MyOtherfrm.showdialog
end sub

the splash form stays on screen although hidden behind the other form. If
the other form is minimized the splash form will still be seen. I want it to
be totally gone after the myOtherfrm is finished loading.

This was easy in vb6 but in .NET, whew :-(

Any help greatly appreciated.

Bob

 

[Shannon Geraci]

Bob,
This URL has some pretty good information on creating a splash screen (and
also the About form) and how to make it appear on top of the main form...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnhcvb03/html/vb03i11.asp

Shannon

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Ho do you do a simple splash form in .NEt that does not stay on screen
behind the next form that is shown

If I do
Sub main()
Dim mysplash as new frmsplash
mysplash.show
Dim MyOtherfrm as new frmOther
MyOtherfrm.showdialog
end sub

the splash form stays on screen although hidden behind the other form. If
the other form is minimized the splash form will still be seen. I want it to
be totally gone after the myOtherfrm is finished loading.

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[Bob Dufour]

Thanks Shannon,
The code looks good but it just does NOT produce the desired result. i.e. to
make a splash screen appear almost immediately as the app starts.
The reason it does not work is that the splash screen is shown in the main
form's load event and that event occurs well AFTER the form goes through
it's initialize call. In our case we have a lot of custom controls,
including Component one and Infragistics custom controls that seems to be
doing a lot of work in the initialization process of the form and this takes
time, so putting the call to open a splash screen at the beginning of a form
load event in our case takes 30 seconds before the splash screen is
displayed, which makes it totally useless.

If anyone has any ideas or experience on how to solve this, I would really
appreciate hearing from them,

Thanks,

Bob

 

[Chris Dunaway]

Ho do you do a simple splash form in .NEt that does not stay on screen
behind the next form that is shown

Alter your code just a little (this is one way):

Sub main()
Dim mysplash as new frmsplash
mysplash.show
Dim MyOtherfrm as new frmOther
MyOtherfrm.Show
mysplash.Close
mysplash.dispose
Application.Run()
end sub

 

[Sueffel]

Alter your code just a little (this is one way):

Sub main()
Dim mysplash as new frmsplash
mysplash.show
Dim MyOtherfrm as new frmOther
MyOtherfrm.Show
mysplash.Close
mysplash.dispose
Application.Run()
end sub

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address.

To modify on what Chris has just said, in the "New" procedure of the main
form, have a small timer that will close the Splash form, and pass the
splash form object to it. Then, however long the main form takes to do
it'sthing, the splash will stay right there untill it's loaded.

Just something Idid to add "Spice" to one of my appz.

Sueffel

 

[Ayaz Ahmed]

Hello,

Hide splash form also when your splash form loading succesfully.


Warm Regards,

Ayaz Ahmed
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