In an app where the autoexec opens the main form, sometimes a lengthy procedure to refresh the links in the database is needed.

For this reason the progress is dislayed on a statusline on the main form. The call to the refresh-links procedure (itself in a module), is in the Form_load of the main form.

However, when the refresh launches, NONE of the objects (eg. the forementioned status-line) on the mainform are displayed until refresh-links is finished. Even an explicit me.repaint does not help. I understood that form_load is called AFTER the form is displayed.

Anyhints on how to get the form to appear in form_load before will be appreciated.

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Tim

Form_Load
Form_Activate (can't activate that which is not loaded. I believe this is where the form becomes visible.)
Form_GotFocus

Well the first line in help on "Load" says:
The Load event occurs when a form is opened and [u]its records are displayed</u>.


The first line in help on "Activate" says:
The Activate event occurs when a form or report [u]receives the focus </u>and becomes the active window.

(Underlines are mine)

I tried form_Activate but the same behavior occurs.
It "feels" like the control moves on to the other task that it simply never gets around to displaying. Maybe I need some kind of time delay.
Things like repaint and doevents did not do it.



Tim

If the waiting occurs every time you open the form, make the message visible immediately as the default on the form, then turn off the message in the last line of your lengthy procedure. That way it'll be there from the start: no need for putting anything in ON OPEN, ON ACTIVATE, or ON LOAD.


Greg Serrano
Michigan Dept. of Environmental Quality, Air Quality Division

Thanks.
Perhaps I miss something.
However, as I said NONE of the items on the main menu are displayed which are all visible by default, until the table-linking loop is done.

There is even a msgbox which pops up during the linking and the menu still does not display.


Tim

I've had the same problem. The solution is simple. The form isn't completely loaded until after the On_Load event procedure is finished. But On_Timer events don't start occuring until AFTER the form is completely loaded.

So move your initialization/feedback code from the On_Load event to the On_Timer event. In On_Load set TimerInterval to 1, and in On_Timer, so that it doesn't repeat, set it back to 0.