Hi,

I have a Splash form in my Windows Forms app. It has a label on it, and in
the Paint event of the label, I draw some text on the label.

But I also want the Splash form to load my MDI form and carry out the
initialisation of the application...

Trouble is, it only paints the Splash form with the label and text, then it
does nothing else, even though I have code in the splash form Paint event
like this:

       Me.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor

       If m_blnPaintOnce = False Then
           Call DrawStringFloatFormat(e)
       Else
           If m_blnAppReady = False Then
               Label3.Text = "load management form"
               ManagementForm = New frmManagement
               m_blnAppReady = True
           Else
               Cursor = Cursors.Default
               Label3.Text = "finished, hide and show"
               Me.Dispose()
               ManagementForm.Visible = True
           End If
       End If

I don't know what is wrong, it never shows the MDI form, just shows the
Splash form then stops.

I just want it to paint the slash form once, write the text on it, then laod
the main form, wait while it does it's work, then hide itself, but it never
does it.

Please help, this is really a strange problem.

thanks, Philip