Loading & Unloading forms

[cpluspluser]

I know this is a reeeeaaaally basic question and probably sounds stupid, but here it goes. I've designed an application that runs from one VB form. I have an About menu that brings of a splash screen. When the user clicks the About menu option from the main form, I want the splash screen to load and the main form hidden.


Wouldn't I just do something like this in the About menu click_event?:

frmMain.hide
frmSplash.load

These aren't working for me. What's wrong??

Thanks!!

[Buzby]

You're not actually showing the about screen. (and frmSplash.load is not valid VB)

try this:


frmMain.hide
load frmSplash
frmSplash.show



You will need to put some code in the Unload event of the splash screen to re-display the main screen.

eg;

Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
frmMain.show
End Sub

[Buzby]

The other question I should ask, is why do you want the main form to disappear in the first place - a better solution would be to do

Load frmSplash
frmSplash.Show 1


which would display the splash screen 'modally' on top of the main form - this means the user won't be able to click on the main form until the splash form has been closed. This is the norm for splash screens.