this.hide or this.visible=true not working...

Hi,

i have a form consisting of only a text box. in the form_load, i have code that reads "this.hide()". However then the form loads, it is still visible. I have also tried "this.visible = true" and have tried them in the forms constructor as well, but nothing i try seems to work.

Is anyone else having this issue with WM 2005 and CF 2.0

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this.hide or this.visible=true not working...

Sarah Camsell

Ilya,

although this works to hide the form, the Form name and the form's top right "OK" button still show in the top Task bar. I have tried SendToBack and TopMost = false to resolve this, but to no avail. Any ideas
Bilgehan
It's like this by design.

The Application.Run (myForm) method does a Visible = true before entering the message loop.

During the "Visible=true" management (but before actually setting it) it calls the Load event of your form.

The order is:

1 Form constructor

2 Load event

3 Visible = true

I found no way to solve this problem apart setting a short Timer

If you are curious, just set a breakpoint inside your Load event and take

a look at the call stack
Adatacorp
Hi,

I had also faced this issue, my workaround was to call Hide() in the tick of a timer with interval set to 10ms.

didn't figured out why ... (maybe something with that the event raised before it really activated.. or maybe someone will give me a better answer.. :P)

cheers,

Oren.
Demann

Please try hiding it from Activated event:

private void Form1_Activated(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.Hide();

}
Chyi Pin

Thanks much Ilya, that worked. Interesting feature
myrdhrin

Still hoping a microsoft technical engineer will provide an answer to this issue.

thakn you.
Hoots
try doing a me.update after you have hidden the form.
niketu
doesn't work. i'm amazed that simple things like this are so difficult.
Ron A. Buckton

that worked...but seems like a bug to me. I wonder if it will be acknowledged as such and fixed.
SashaJuric

OK,

I started with a brand new project and the only code in that project is below. The form refuses to be hidden...is this a bug

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace test
{
      public partial class Form1 : Form
      {
            public Form1()
            {
                     InitializeComponent();
                     //this.Hide();
                     this.Visible = false;
            }

            private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
            {
                    //this.Hide();
                    this.Visible = false;
             }
      }
}
this.hide or this.visible=true not working...

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