Make the splash form stay a little longer . . .

[John Reynolds]

is there a Delay? A Pause? How do you get the splash form to stay for, say 2 seconds?

Thanks,
John

[Captain Nuss]

One possible solution would be to place a timer into the spash screen form and set it's delay to a value of, let's say 2000. In the Timer1_timer event you could place a Unload Me statement.

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[Clearcode]

Add a Timer control to frmSplash and set its Interval property to be 2000.

Comment out the form_keypress that normally unloads the form:

private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii as Integer)
' don't unload until timere fires -- Unload me
End Sub




and instead make it unload when the timer fires...


private Sub Timer1_Timer()

Unload me

End Sub




You can vary the time it stays up by altering the Interval porperty of the timer.

HTH,
D

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[John Reynolds]

I thought I had it, but the code doesn't execute until the Main form closes . . . (?)


private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Unload me
End Sub

[Captain Nuss]

1. Did you enable the timer?

2. (if you did enable it) Did you set the splash form to be the starting form of the application? If not, try that and do the initialization tasks (like loading the main form) in the Form_Load procedure of the splash form. Insert another Form.show statement into the timer event procedure to show the main form. That might possibly help.

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[John G Duffy]

In SUB Main make sure you have a
'
FrmSPlash.Show (Or whatever your splash form is named) BEFORE frmMain.SHOW.
Also if the frmMain_load procedures are long running, insert a DOEVENTS in long loops so frmSplash will get control once in a while.

John G