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SHOW Method Details
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[form.]SHOW [style%]
SCREEN.SHOW
Usage Notes
■ Use SCREEN.SHOW to display all forms that have been hidden with the
command SCREEN.HIDE. See ◄HIDE Method►
■ If the specified form is not loaded when the SHOW method is invoked,
Visual Basic automatically loads it. See: ◄LOAD Statement►
■ When displaying a modal form, no user input (keyboard or mouse click)
can occur in any other form until the modal form is hidden or unloaded.
Your program must hide or unload a modal form (usually in response to
some user action) before other forms can respond to events or accept
user input. Because of this, it is not a good idea to use "SHOW 1" in a
Form_Load event procedure unless you explicitly code an alternate way
of removing or hiding the form. See: ◄Modal Vs. Modeless►
■ When a modeless form is displayed, code that occurs after the SHOW
method is executed as it is encountered. When a modal form is displayed,
code after the SHOW method is not executed until the form is hidden
or unloaded. See: ◄HIDE Method► ◄UNLOAD Statement►
■ Standard dialog boxes produced by Visual Basic functions such as MSGBOX
and INPUTBOX$ are invoked by direct reference. They cannot be loaded,
shown, or unloaded. See: ◄MSGBOX Function► ◄INPUTBOX$ Function►