Load form at startup if condition is met

[tonyflora63]

Hi



I have a form with a checkbox control. How would you load this form at starup if the checkbox is checked? Do you load it from the main form?



Tony

 

[SgtJarrow]

To me that depends on two things...Your experience with VB code and your requirements.

VB experience is simple enough. Hopefully you know how to declare, instantiate and show a form.

Requirements are another matter. You probably have a mainform that opens when the application is started. Using the OnLoad event of that form, you could check to determine if the box is checked (more than likely having to pull from a table or config file) and display your second form if checked.

A bit more advanced is to use an application event, thereby allowing you to evaluate and open this form even before your mainform is loaded. This involves a bit more experience to implement, but is not much more difficult in my opinion.

You have to ask yourself what is the objective here. If you just want a second form to open when the main opens, then the first scenario works great. If you want a "info" type form to open (similar to the first screen of many wizards where you check the box to show/not show at startup), then the second scenario fits that mold.

Think about it, make your decision, give it a shot and then return here if you get stuck or need some more info.

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