Hi Aimee,

Thanks very much for your reply. I gave that a try and it works a charm!

I had never heard of the DoEvents() function before, I looked it up on MSDN, so for anyone else who encounters this problem:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr....doevents.aspx

And from that:

If you call DoEvents in your code, your application can handle the...

Hi there,

I have a strange problem with creating an instance of a form which I want to use as a custom message box.
The idea is that when the user clicks the button to perform a database search, an instance of this form is loaded.

The background image of the form never displays but the text on the form does - but it all works fine when I remove the call to the database.

I also tried putting a "proper"...