Starting form from Sub Main

[El-Phantasmo]

Ok I have an app and I want to be able to execute from command line and from GUI.

I created a sub main

  Public Shared Sub main()

    Dim args As String() = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()
    Dim arg As String

    If args.GetUpperBound(0) = 0 Then
      ' load user interaction form
      Dim f As New frmNetStat()
      f.FormLoad()

    Else
      frmNetStat.GetCommandLineArgs()

      ' process arguments
      ' no visual display is necessary
    End If

  End Sub

  Public Sub FormLoad()
    lblStatus.Text = "Awaiting command..."
    g_strConnection = "connection info..."
' form shows up and then exits immediately
    Me.Show() 
  End Sub

however, the problem is it pops up the form and disappears w/o any type of input from the user

My sub main procedure is placed just below the
Public Sub New proc...
public sub form load is in the main part of the code
I did change the startup to be Sub Main and not the standard formload.

Any ideas

[Edneeis]

Try using the Application.Run method like this:

Public Shared Sub main()
 
    Dim args As String() = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()
    Dim arg As String
 
    If args.GetUpperBound(0) = 0 Then
      ' load user interaction form
      [b]Application.Run(New frmNetStat())[/b]
 
    Else
      frmNetStat.GetCommandLineArgs()
 
      ' process arguments
      ' no visual display is necessary
    End If
 
  End Sub
 
  Public Sub FormLoad()
    lblStatus.Text = "Awaiting command..."
    g_strConnection = "connection info..."
' form shows up and then exits immediately
    Me.Show() 
  End Sub

You can get more info on the method in the help. Also you should just use the Form_Load event or call your FormLoad method from the Form's constructor.

[El-Phantasmo]

ahhh that worked great
Thanks!

I'll read up some more on that application.run

[El-Phantasmo]

ok.. new problem.
I can't get console.writeline("some string") to actually output to console.

I understand writeline writes to the standardoutput.

I tried to set it with
System.Console.SetOut(Console.Out)

however, that didn't do a thing

The GUI pops up fine when I don't have any parameters as it should, and it works great from command line.. but I can't get it to output text to command line.