Forms - Showing vs. Loading

I thought I'd share something I just realized although I feel foolish for not understanding this earlier.

When a form is loaded using the Load command, the Load Form event executes even though the user does not see the form on the screen. When a form is loaded using the Show method, the Load Form event executes and the user sees the form on the screen.

When a previously loaded form is made visible with the Show method, the Load Form event does not re-execute.

Anyone else have some pointers on the way forms work?

BluesMatt

Yeah, that's why you use the

VB Code:

Unload Me

statement when you've finished with a form, not only does it free the memory used, but it lets you re-execute the Form_Load code again ;)

that is true, but there are other events (such as form_activate) that are run every time hte form is shown ;)

VB help (somewhere) has a list of all the events that occur to a form, and the order that they occur in. I think somebody posted it on this form a few weeks ago.