Hi,

I have created a form to use as a splash screen.
It has a picture box (left half) and 2 text boxes (right half).

It works fine, except the text in the main textbox (which is multiline) shows as highlighted (selected). Textbox is read only.

Also how do I regulate the period of display ?

Any ideas appreciated.


                  regards Demac43

Your textbox is probably highlighted because it's tab index is 0 (the first selected item). I would advise setting tab stop to "False" for your text box.

If you want to regulate the time of the splash-screen display, you can do one of two things:

1. If there is some sort of load time involved (you have to connect to a database), you can call your functions from the splash screen code, and then close your splash screen after the loading is done.

or

2. Use the Sleep method to pause the application. Place this code before your me.close statement (x will equal milliseconds):

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep(x)

This will pause your application as long as you like.

"It's my way, or the Hemingway..."

Or you could put a stopwatch control on the form, and when the interval is reached: Unload Me. (Be sure to show the application's main form before you have the splash screen commit suicide though!)

If you use the application wizard to create an application with a splash screen, you can examine the resultant project to see how the VB authors thought it should be done.