small to big forms

[snipered]

This is my aim: when a button is clicked, a form should should appear, but it should be really small and it should grow to a size of the screen, and then it should be slightly transparent (enough so u can read it but the form behind is visible).
How can i do this?

I know how to do the opacity bit. Thats no problem. Its making the screen grow from small to big.

[McBain2]

Something like this (using a Timer on the form).... ?

Imports System.Windows.Forms, System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation
 
Public Class Form1
   Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
 
   Const nSteps As Integer = 50
   Private stepX As Integer = WorkingArea.Width \ (nSteps - 1)
   Private stepY As Integer = WorkingArea.Height \ (nSteps - 1)
 
   Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
      Timer1.Enabled = True
   End Sub
 
   Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
      Static counter As Integer
      If counter < nSteps Then
         Width += stepX
         Height += stepY
         Me.CenterToScreen()
         counter += 1
      Else
         counter = Nothing
         Timer1.Enabled = False
         WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized
         Opacity = 0.75
      End If
   End Sub
 
End Class

Needs some tweaking... but seems a bit slow for me, but with nSteps lower seems jerky. Prolly a better way of doing it but that's my 2 minute answer!

[snipered]

Thats fine for me. I set the nsteps to 25 and its looks pretty good.
I have a problem though. The components within the form stay at the same size. How can i make these grow aswell relevant to the screen size and my original size?

I was thinking of just adding the components on after wards. Which would be teh best way of doing it: adding the components on afterwards or having the components grow?

I tried a couple of things to make the components grow but it crashes.

[McBain2]

Add everything on afterwards!

Trying to make all the controls on the form grow as well would require a lot of coding and probably slow things up quite badly.

Clever use of panels and the dock & anchor properties may get you somewhere near the desired effect - but its a lot off effort for something that is unkiley to look that good.