Use splash screen to preload other forms?

[jgoodman00]

I have an application which currently has 4 main forms.

frmMain,
frmSplash,
frmR,
frmS.

frmMain is the Startup object.
It is an MDI Parent.
frmSplash is called from the frmMain_Load event & uses ShowDialog()


frmR, & frmS are data-entry forms & require quite a lot of data to be loaded for combo box selections. They both take approx 10secs to load. At the moment this delay is instigated when the user wants to display the form:
Dim frmR as new frmR
frmR.MDIParent = Me
frmR.Show

I would like to load these forms while the splash screen is displayed, so as to hide the delay.

Any suggestions?



James Goodman MCSE, MCDBA

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[terpy]

Probably the simplest way is to set an app-wide boolean variable to false, and then have the last form that is loading stuff in the background change it to true.

Then in frmSplash load event, loop until the value is true:

do until blnIsDone=true
loop
me.close()