Splash screen

[John]

Hi

I have a main sub as start-up. I need to display a splash screen and while
it is displayed I need to do some stuff in the background like opening db
connections etc. After that is done I need to close splash and open a login
form. Can anyone give me a code example of how to do this elegantly?

Thanks

Regards

[Vagabond Software]

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Hi

I have a main sub as start-up. I need to display a splash screen and while
it is displayed I need to do some stuff in the background like opening db
connections etc. After that is done I need to close splash and open a
login form. Can anyone give me a code example of how to do this elegantly?

Thanks

I don't know how "elegant" this is, but it's one way to do it. In your
sub-main module:

Public Shared Sub Main()

'Load Splash
splashForm = New Splash
splashForm.Show()

'Setup Data Access Layer
'blah blah blah

'Setup Business Layer
'blah blah blah

'Load GUI
mainForm = New FormMain
Application.Run(mainForm)

End Sub

In the FormMain Load event:

Private Sub FormMain_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

'Do some stuff
splashForm.Update()

'Ready to present GUI to end-user
splashForm.Close()

End Sub

I hope this helps, good luck.

Carl

[Mark Broadbent]

this would potentially cause a rendering problem if user does anything
during load time (such as drag another app window across loading app).
Threading is ideally needed.
br,
Mark.
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"John" <Jo**@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi

I have a main sub as start-up. I need to display a splash screen and
while it is displayed I need to do some stuff in the background like
opening db connections etc. After that is done I need to close splash and
open a login form. Can anyone give me a code example of how to do this
elegantly?

Thanks

I don't know how "elegant" this is, but it's one way to do it. In your
sub-main module:

Public Shared Sub Main()

'Load Splash
splashForm = New Splash
splashForm.Show()

'Setup Data Access Layer
'blah blah blah

'Setup Business Layer
'blah blah blah

'Load GUI
mainForm = New FormMain
Application.Run(mainForm)

End Sub

In the FormMain Load event:

Private Sub FormMain_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

'Do some stuff
splashForm.Update()

'Ready to present GUI to end-user
splashForm.Close()

End Sub

I hope this helps, good luck.

Carl

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi John, I was going to code an example for you, but after a quick search
there are loads of great examples - you can try from google using "splash
screen c#"

Here is one such example
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/Pr...lashScreen.asp

Using Threading is the key.

Br,

Mark.

"John" <Jo**@nospam.infovis.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi

I have a main sub as start-up. I need to display a splash screen and while
it is displayed I need to do some stuff in the background like opening db
connections etc. After that is done I need to close splash and open a
login form. Can anyone give me a code example of how to do this elegantly?

Thanks

Regards

[Armin Zingler]

"John" <Jo**@nospam.infovis.co.uk> schrieb

Hi

I have a main sub as start-up. I need to display a splash screen and
while it is displayed I need to do some stuff in the background like
opening db connections etc. After that is done I need to close
splash and open a login form. Can anyone give me a code example of
how to do this elegantly?

http://people.freenet.de/armin.zingl...adedSplash.zip
Armin