closing a windows form

[bill]

Vb.net
I have 2 windows forms
One is used as the splash screen
I have the timer set to 5000
and enabled

I want the first screen to close and open a second form
the splash screen closes and then the second form never
opens.

Under the tick event

me.close()
dim form1 as new form1
form1.show


Why doesnt this work


Thanks

[Harald Bjorøy]

Re: closing a windows form

me.Close() unloads the resources of the form, and probably stops code
execution; if not - it would unload the newly created object because its
"owner" or "parent" is unloaded.

A better design would probably be to open the splash screen modal in the
"main()" function, then after that closes, open the "real" main window;

In the "Main()" -function (located in the "real" application form):
....

Dim frmMain as new Form1
Dim frmSplash as new SplashScreen ' Includes a message and a timer that
makes it close it self

frmSplash.ShowD ialog(frmMain)

Application.Run (frmMain)

Regards,
Harald Bjorøy


"bill" <bkelleman@pcda ta1.com> wrote in message
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> Vb.net
> I have 2 windows forms
> One is used as the splash screen
> I have the timer set to 5000
> and enabled
>
> I want the first screen to close and open a second form
> the splash screen closes and then the second form never
> opens.
>
> Under the tick event
>
> me.close()
> dim form1 as new form1
> form1.show
>
>
> Why doesnt this work
>
>
> Thanks
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