Creating this "Please wait..." window?

[danzar]

Are you tring to figure out how to show the form or how to show it while the program is loading? If you are wanting to show it while the program load, then what i did was loaded the "loading form" at the ever beginning of the other form. then when it was done with all the other stuff I closed the "loading form"

[SimpleData]

I am not having trouble on figuring out those, the thing I am wondering is creating a form in that style. I think that form style is built-in Windows as a standart loading screen.

[DaveyM69]

This is what I used the last time I needed this in Load event (formSplash is a borderless form).

Hide();
bool done = false;
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(
(x) =>
{
using (formSplash = new FormSplash())
{
formSplash.Show();
while (!done)
Application.DoEvents();
formSplash.Close();
}
});
// Do stuff...
done = true;
Show();

Dave
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Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)

[SimpleData]

Thank you for the code but a borderless form and a label does a little bit different comparing to the screen in screenshot.

[dan sh]

Do whatever you are doing in load on a separate thread. And while that is executed, set the border of your form to none and hide all the controls. Display just a label to the user with needed text. This is no different than the previous post of mine except instead of having a separate form, you are doing same thing in the current form itself. This, IMO, is not a good way. You will need to write same thing again and again if there are some more forms which take time to load. Go for what I had posted earlier. AFAIK it is a decent way to achieve this. I don't know if there is any other way to do this.

[DaveyM69]

You can use whatever border style you like if you set the form's ControlBox to false and Text to empty. Alternatively, override OnPaint in the splash form and draw your own border etc eg.

protected override void OnPaint(PaintEventArgs e)
{
using (Pen pen = new Pen(Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.InactiveBorder)))
{
e.Graphics.DrawRectangle(
pen,
new Rectangle(
Point.Empty, new Size(Width - 1, Height - 1))
);
}
base.OnPaint(e);
}

Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)

[SimpleData]

That's better, thanks.

[DaveyM69]

I've investigated this a little more, and it may be able to be done by PInvoking SetWindowLong[^]. See also Window Styles[^] and Extended Window Styles[^].

Dave
BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
Why are you using VB6? Do you hate yourself? (Christian Graus)

[Alan N]

Hi, That looks remarkably like a button without a focus rectangle to me.

public class CuelessButton : Button {
public CuelessButton() {
}

protected override bool ShowFocusCues {
  get { return false; }
}

}

Now dock it in a borderless form.

public partial class SplashForm : Form {
private CuelessButton button1;

public SplashForm() {
  InitializeComponent();
  this.button1 = new CuelessButton();
  this.button1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
  this.button1.Text = "Please Wait ...";
  this.Controls.Add(this.button1);
}

}

Umm, I think that needs a bit of work but it looks about right! Alan.

[Christian Graus]

What could possibly be simpler than what you were told to do ? I mean, seriously ? you need to put it in another thread if you want it to repaint itself while the app is busy. yes, the other apps do that, too

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[SimpleData]

What I ment by simpler was something built-in to windows.