Load Order issues

[dacron]

Hi there everyone, I'm new to the forums and new to coding. I'm currently making a program for a VB class I'm in. I'm required to have a splashscreen and 5 windows. Not a big deal, its a simple little rpg calculator, my issue is I set my code up to load a form up to start a new game or load an old game up. I have visual basic loading up the splashscreen at the same time. I wish to be nudged in the right direction. How would I allow the splash screen to show up, close, then load the dialogbox that allows the player to start a new game or load an old character file?

My current code is in a form load

" Private Sub Mainform_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

SimWelcome.ShowDialog()
End Sub
End Class"

[dglienna]

That doesn't look like a Spashscreen. Lesson Here

[Mur16]

The ShowDialog will stop all activity in Mainform until SimWelcome is closed. One way would be to add code to SimWelcome_Load where, after some time, it closes itself. Have you seen the Timer class yet?

[dacron]

Well good news, that's not my splash screen. It's a dialog box used to load old files or start a new one. The issue I have is the code I put in loads up that window at the same exact time the splash screen loads up, the splash doesn't go away until the dialog window goes away. I have had a lesson on timers, do I need to hard code the splash screen in, set a timer up to release it, and then display the dialogbox?

[dacron]

Second, thanks for the site link David, I'm gonna troll it and see if I can learn anything. =)

[Mur16]

Open your splash first with ShowDialog so it stops everything else until it closes. If you are working in VS you can set a splash screen in My Project - Application (on the botom), but I don't know if that's the assignment

[GremlinSA]

Open your splash first with ShowDialog so it stops everything else until it closes. If you are working in VS you can set a splash screen in My Project - Application (on the botom), but I don't know if that's the assignment

The Idea of a Splash screen is that everything else can continue loading (but the user at least see's a startup screen).. Expecially for those apps that have code that takes longer than a few seconds to load..

If you want a welcome page to show after the splash page, place the code in the Form Activate sub, not Form Load sub....

[dacron]

First off I would like to thank everyone that replied and tried to help me. Everyone's advice was helpful in some way or another. I also asked my teacher about how to do it in a fashion that would be feasable to him. I then felt like an idiot when he showed me I could make the simwelcome dialog box as my main load in the properties. Thank you everyone!