Why would they want to do it this way?

[ardneh]

Hi all,

I am trying to write a program in VB in a more professinoal way, instead of the way I'm doing it. Any programmer who sees my program will probably will have the loudes lough in his life.

Anyway, I used the Application Wizard in VB 6.0... One thing that I found interesting is that the following code

Set fMainForm = New frmMain
Load fMainForm

You see... there is this frmMain already design..
why can't they just use the following code instead

frmMain.show

I think the main reason of using "load" is because there is a splash screen... So the mainForm is hidden while loaded, so only the splash screen is shown.

But why the creating a new form object ??


Regards





hendra wijaya

[rudvs2]

by creating creating an object to contain the form, it gives you the ability to completly destroy the form If yuo are using a module and have other forms still open or have no forms open and still have code executing

it also will allow you to handle multiple instances of the form a lot easier.

(at least this is only my humble understanding of it)

[ardneh]

aaaaaaaaaaahh... that makes sense indeed..

thank you



hendra wijaya

[Megatron]

Think of it this way. When designing an MDI Child form, you can have a "template" form, and loading new templates (with your method shown above) each time the user requests a new document.

[Kenny_Dee]

they are correct. Using a load form will load the form up in the background. When you show the form it will show up right away.