My screen stays on background

7 Mar 2006 6:00 PM

Fab

Hello,

I have a VB6 application running on windows XP SP1 (CPU : 900Mhz, RAM : 500
Mo).
For one of the screens (let's call it "screen A"), when I click on a button
to have access to the following screen B, it sometimes stays on screen A but
the screen B is loaded and displayed on background. The screen A is on the
front but is not active (the blue title bar is greyed). Due to this, I have
to make ALT+TAB to display the screen B.
I use the following code in the click event of the button in screen A :
      ScreenB.Show
      ScreenB.Refresh
      ScreenA.Hide (I don't want to unload screen A)
After this code some other code is executed in the same procedure (to change
the cursor from hourglass to arrow). I have added the command
"ScreenB.Zorder" at the end but it does not solve the problem.
This problem does not happen all the time. It happens especially when a lot
of data has to be loaded in screenB, but even in this case, it sometimes
works fine.

When I run the application on a faster PC (3Ghz, 1Go RAM), I don't get this
problem... Unfortunately, the application is inly used on the slower PC !

Thank you for your help !

7 Mar 2006 8:20 PM

Mike Williams

"Fab" <F**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:430F8C34-6E58-47F5-8251-DC4619711A99@microsoft.com...

> For one of the screens (let's call it "screen A"), when I click on a
> button
> to have access to the following screen B, it sometimes stays on screen A
> but the screen B is loaded and displayed on background. The screen A is
> on the front but is not active (the blue title bar is greyed). Due to
> this, I
> have to make ALT+TAB to display the screen B.

Can't reproduce that here, but then I don't know what other code you've got
in the various events of FormA and what you have in FormB that might relate
to FormA. Have you tried rearranging the order a little, such as:

ScreenA.Hide
DoEvents
ScreenB.Show
.. . . etc

Mike