Keeping forms up with a time limit and 1 other Q 1

[andrewvampire]

I need to know how to like keep a splash screen up for a certain amount of seconds and then make it automaticly switch to the form directed when the time limit as expired.
(Please insert code into your replies)

I also would like to know how to change the color and image of your file-menu (File,Options you know). I would realyy like to know how to do this because that plain old gray file menu doesn't look very good with my program.

Thanks,
J.Conway

 

[BlackKnight]

Hi,
For the splash screen:
1) Put a timer control in your splash form.
2) Set its enabled property to true
3) Set its INTERVAL property to the numbe of seconds to wait. (1000 = 1 second)
4) Make the splash form the form to be loaded in your project.
5) Ib the timer control TIMER event insert this code:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
'Form you want to load next.
frmMain.Show
'Unload your splash screen
Unload frmSplash
End Sub

For the colored menu item if you are using the standard menu cotrol then you will have to to API for some methods.

Have a good one!
BK