Timed Splashscreen

[UrlGuy]

For my program, if I would want to display a form, picture or something before the main app loaded how would I do that? Im pretty sure it has something to do with the timer icon but I'm not sure how to use that, hope anyone can help a newb

[sciguyryan]

For my program, if I would want to display a form, picture or something before the main app loaded how would I do that? Im pretty sure it has something to do with the timer icon but I'm not sure how to use that, hope anyone can help a newb

Heres the idea:

Create a form (Say for an example frmSplash).

Add whatever you like to that and add a Timer to that with an interval of 10000 (10 Seconds).

In the Timer1_Timer Event put something like this:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    ' Show the next form...
    frmFormNameHere.Show (vbNormal)
    ' Unload this form...
    Unload Me
End Sub

Or, something like that

Cheers,

Ryanj

[Jethro Tull]

I suggest you to start the project in the splash form (in Project--->(project) properties).

As sciguyryan said, put a timer in the form and set the timer at your pleasure (I suggest no more than 10 secs, it is Interval <= 10000) and

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    Unload Me
End Sub

[sciguyryan]

I suggest you to start the project in the splash form (in Project--->(project) properties).

As sciguyryan said, put a timer in the form and set the timer at your pleasure (I suggest no more than 10 secs, it is Interval <= 10000) and

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
    Unload Me
End Sub

Just don't forget to show the next form or you'll end up showing nothing at all

Cheers,

RyanJ

[Jethro Tull]

[sciguyryan]

Easy mistake to make, I made that one once and was getting annoyed because I could not find my application.... I spent hours working through the code and it all ended up with one line of code...

Cheers,

RyanJ

[Jethro Tull]

Normally I start my apps in a splash form, and here I make the initializations, and then load the MDI form.