Hi.

I‘m trying to preload some forms with large lists before letting people use the application. What is the best way to preload these forms in application (not to show them).

Thank you.
Pavel

when opening the app, using either the main sub routine or attached into the load event of the opening form you can pre load your forms by callng load formname

This loads them but they are not visible (unlike formname.show)
you then make them visible with formname.visible = true
Hope this helps

Thank you for the answer.
Unfortunately, my forms are MDIChild forms and they are become immediately visible after Form_Load event.
Any other ideas?

Pavel

in the Load event of the mdi child move the form ouside the window
me.left = screen.width
so it is visible, but hidden. To show it, just change the Left property to zero (or whatever)

Marco

Why do your forms become immediately visible. Are showing them in the MDI forms load event?

I have tested a MDIForm with a child form1. set the project startup form to MDIForm in the load event of the MDIForm preload form 1 using load form1

form a menu item i then created a item to form1.show.

This worked perfectly.

Im just intrigued as to why your forms were showing initially.

hi there...

yyour mdi probably has the option autoshowchildren in true...

put it false to prevent the auto show of childrens...

HTH

Gonzalo

Dear Marco.
Thank you.

It is working perfectly well.

To Byron:
Here is a note from MSDN:
"MDI child forms cannot be hidden, and thus are immediately visible after the Form_Load event procedure ends."
So, until form is loaded it can’t be unvisible.

Pavel