[RESOLVED] Show Form While Updating

[wftech]

I have a "housekeeping Form" set up that...
when triggerd by the main form, updates records, sends email, clears and refills an access table all of which runs from a Form.Load Event my problem is the form "PLEASE WAIT WHILE SYSTEM IS UPDATING" will not fully load while all these things are happning I have tried ME.Show and ME. Activate

I want the form to load completely and be visable during the whole process thill the ME.Close

[stanav]

Go in project properties and on the application tab, set that "please wait..." form as the splash screen. In your main form, remove any code that you manually put in to show that form (because you have made it a splash screen, so it will be shown automatically when your main form loads and closed when your main form done loading)

[wftech]

I don't think you understand,
I have a startup splash screen that shoes when the main form loads, part of the main form load event is a timer this timer fires a tick event at 2PM that loads my "Update" form and performs the update functions I want this form to fully load and show while the updates are happning then close when the updates are done showing the main form (which was still running in the background)

[stanav]

You already has a splash screen, and why would you want to have another "splash-screen-like" form just to show "updating... please wait..." message? Wouldn't it be more logical to display that message on your splash screen? And no, you can't have 2 splash screens at once.

[wftech]

In almost any software app I have ever seen there is a "Startup" screen and then there is a seprate "update" screen my startup screen indicates what the app is ect.. all I want is for this update page to load in front of the main page to tell the user to stand by while the system updates I just want to get the page to load completely, Then do the update

[wftech]

Nevermind got it

[PaulHarman]

can I ask how?

[wftech]

I just created an update form that runs the update routine as a load event, then when the timer fires, the update form loads and my update routine is run