Form Threads

Hope this is what you need.

In Form1

private void btnShow_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Form2 frmForm2 = new Form2();
this.Hide();
frmForm2.ShowDialog(this);
this.Show();
}

In Form2

private void btnClose_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Close();
}


Ambika Praveen

Thanks for your reply, digitalmanic!

But that's not what I want to do. I'll try to explain it better.

I have a main form (Form1) and I use ElapsedEventHandler to call a method that creates a new form (Form2).

But I don't want Form2 to have a button to close, I want it to close automatically after a certain time. I manage to do that all right.

The problem here is that if I use ShowDialog() I cannot close the Dialog until it returns a value.

I'm using Form2.Show() and it works just like I want. It opens, and after a certain time it closes with Form2.Close(). But what happens is that in the place of the Form2 components appear black rectangles (with the shape of the components) but not the components.

If I use ShowDialog() the components are all ok but I have the problem mentioned above: the need of having a button to return a DialogResult.

Thanks again!