Pop up a form with a temporary message

[Michael A. Covington]

I want to define a form that has a textbox on it, and at some stages in my
program:

- create the form
- put a message in the textbox
- show the form
- do a time-consuming computation
- close the form

Currently, the form appears at the right time but the textbox always comes
out blank. What order should I be doing things in, and are some Update or
Refresh calls needed?

Thanks to all!

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There are a number of ways to skin this particular cat. One way:
Create an overload of the Form ctor that accepts a string message parameter
that gets stored in a private string field in the Form class.
In Form_Load, just set the Text value of the TextBox to the string message
field's value. When the form is shown, the text should be visible.
Peter

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"Michael A. Covington" wrote:

I want to define a form that has a textbox on it, and at some stages in my
program:

- create the form
- put a message in the textbox
- show the form
- do a time-consuming computation
- close the form

Currently, the form appears at the right time but the textbox always comes
out blank. What order should I be doing things in, and are some Update or
Refresh calls needed?

Thanks to all!

[Michael A. Covington]

Many thanks. I'll try that.

"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" <pb*******@yahoo.yabbadabbadoo.comwrote in
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There are a number of ways to skin this particular cat. One way:
Create an overload of the Form ctor that accepts a string message
parameter
that gets stored in a private string field in the Form class.
In Form_Load, just set the Text value of the TextBox to the string message
field's value. When the form is shown, the text should be visible.
Peter

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Site: http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
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"Michael A. Covington" wrote:

>I want to define a form that has a textbox on it, and at some stages in
my
program:

- create the form
- put a message in the textbox
- show the form
- do a time-consuming computation
- close the form

Currently, the form appears at the right time but the textbox always
comes
out blank. What order should I be doing things in, and are some Update
or
Refresh calls needed?

Thanks to all!

[Michael A. Covington]

It works if I do an Application.DoEvents() right after formPopUp.Show().
Thanks.

"Michael A. Covington" <lo**@ai.uga.edu.for.addresswrote in message
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Many thanks. I'll try that.

"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" <pb*******@yahoo.yabbadabbadoo.comwrote in
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>There are a number of ways to skin this particular cat. One way:
Create an overload of the Form ctor that accepts a string message
parameter
that gets stored in a private string field in the Form class.
In Form_Load, just set the Text value of the TextBox to the string
message
field's value. When the form is shown, the text should be visible.
Peter

--
Site: http://www.eggheadcafe.com
UnBlog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
Short urls & more: http://ittyurl.net


"Michael A. Covington" wrote:

>>I want to define a form that has a textbox on it, and at some stages in
my
program:

- create the form
- put a message in the textbox
- show the form
- do a time-consuming computation
- close the form

Currently, the form appears at the right time but the textbox always
comes
out blank. What order should I be doing things in, and are some Update
or
Refresh calls needed?

Thanks to all!