[RESOLVED] Message box

[wideminnow6970]

Is there any way to display a messagebox with a question in it when a form starts up?

[Delaney]

by a question, you mean a text question and a field to answer it ? ( a bit like the former input box) or just a text with a question in it?

if it is the first , create a small form with a label and a textbox and call the form.

[jmcilhinney]

Please provide a FULL and CLEAR explanation of the problem. Of course you can display a question in a message box. It's just text like any other, so why would it be different? If what you're actually asking is how can the user answer the question then that's different. Say what you actually mean because, if you actually mean what you said then there's no problem to be solved.

[.paul.]

You can display a MsgBox with a question on startup. You can specify options such as iconquestion and messageboxbuttons.yesno and defaultbutton etc…

[wideminnow6970]

I was able to display the messagebox when the form started.

[jmcilhinney]

I was able to display the messagebox when the form started.

That seems to suggest that your issue was more about doing something when a form was opened rather than about a message box. As you haven't actually specified what your solution was, so it can't help anyone else and we also don't know whether there's a better option, I'll provide options for that.

A form has a Load event and a Shown event. The former is raised just before the form is displayed for the first time and the latter is displayed just after. If you want something to happen at those moments in the form's lifecycle, do it in the appropriate event handler. Note that, once you call Show/ShowDialog and the Load event is raised, the form is going to be displayed. If you're asking the user a question that will affect whether or not you want the form displayed, you need to do it before calling Show/ShowDialog in the first place. If you want to do something before the application's startup form is created, handle the Startup event of the application. That allows you to cancel the event and exit the application without ever creating the startup form is you desire.