VB 6 Load method equivalent in .net? (Loading a form invisibly)

[Mr. Analogy]

I'd like to load a form in the background (invisibly) and then, afer
the controls are all drawn (and resized, in this case), I'd like to
show it. I.e., I want the form to show up nice and crisply, without
showing the user a form building (kinda scary to a non technical user
;-)

I've tried:

Dim f As New Form1
f.Visible = False
f.Show()
f.Visible = True

However the show method makes the form visible momentarily (thus you
get a "flash" of the form, defeating the whole purpose).

 

[Thief_]

Pardon me if I am wrong, but as soon as you issue:

Dim f As New Form1

then the form is as good as loaded and invisible until you SHOW it.

 

[Mr. Analogy]

Unfortunately, no it isn't.

The controls on the form aren't yet instantiated.

You can see this If you look at the form immediately after Dim'ing
it, you'll see that f.controls.count=0 (there were controls on the
form).

 

[Mr. Analogy]

Controls aren't available (instantiated) until the Load() event fires.
And the form becomes visible when the load() event fires.

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Mr. Anoalogy

Where do you have this code in your application?

Dim f As New Form1
f.Visible = False
f.Show()
f.Visible = True

I think that it can explain than something more

Cor

 

[Jon]

Have a look at the "opacity" property

eg putting "Me.Opacity = 0" in the form's constructor

Public Sub New()

MyBase.New()

'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.

InitializeComponent()

'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call

Me.Opacity = 0

End Sub





Jon

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Take a look at the forms suspendlayout and resumelayout methods

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...indowsformscontrolclasssuspendlayouttopic.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...windowsformscontrolclassresumelayouttopic.asp

Ken
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I'd like to load a form in the background (invisibly) and then, afer
the controls are all drawn (and resized, in this case), I'd like to
show it. I.e., I want the form to show up nice and crisply, without
showing the user a form building (kinda scary to a non technical user
;-)

I've tried:

Dim f As New Form1
f.Visible = False
f.Show()
f.Visible = True

However the show method makes the form visible momentarily (thus you
get a "flash" of the form, defeating the whole purpose).