Call Method On Form Load

[mcfly1204]

I am certain this is simple, but I am not used to working with forms. I have a very simple app that I want to have load a form containing a button, and then I want to call a method that will play a sound. My question is where do I call the method?

 
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
PlaySound();
}
 

This code plays the sound, but does not bring up the form.

[mcfly1204]

Nvm. Highlighted the form in VS, selected the action button, and then selected the method I wanted to run for Load.

[mcfly1204]

I spoke too soon. The sound now plays, but the form never appears on the screen. Considering I am just trying to have the simple form with one button appear, and have the sound play until the button on the form is selected, what do I need to do here?

[Curtis Rutland]

In your designer window, double click on the form's title bar. This will auto generate an event handler method for the Load event. Put your code there.

[mcfly1204]

@insertAlias
I should clarify. I understand how to generate an event handler for the Load event, but while the Load event executes, the form never actually appears. So I hear the sound repeating, but I do not see the form.

[Curtis Rutland]

So it doesn't work in the Load event either? I thought the problem might be because you called the method in the constructor, not the Load handler.

Let me think about this and I'll get back to you.

[mcfly1204]

 
namespace EmailAlert
{
public partial class EmailAlert : Form
{
public EmailAlert()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Application.Exit();
}
private void EmailAlert_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int i = 0;
while (i < 200)
{
SoundPlayer simpleSound = new SoundPlayer(@"c:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav");
simpleSound.Play();
Thread.Sleep(5000);
i++;
}
}
}
}
 

With this line added to InitializeComponent:

 
this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.EmailAlert_Load);
 

[Curtis Rutland]

Well, you might want to start a new thread and play the sound there rather than the GUI thread.

[Plater]

Yes the sound should be played in a seperate thread (actually I thought generally the sound interop was non blocking and you made like mms calls or whatever)
Anyway, you should also have an Application.DoEvents() inside that for loop to keep it from being a "busy loop". Although the thread.sleep will release CPU time, it doesn't allow the form to processes windows messages.

If your sound is short enough, adding that Application.DoEvents() might be enough to solve your problem