VB question

The Bollox

I made a prototype program on VB to show what a furure project is going to do. I have a picture box for an FAQ section, and I have the code to populate it.

when I push the button to show only the FAQ section, it pops up, but nothing comes up on the picture box. If I click it again, the text does show, but there is a space where the text should have been the first time. I can't figure out why the text does not show up the first time. I tried making the text come up using a different button, and it worked first time, but I would rather have it all come up with just one button press.

to get all the picture boxes and combo boxes and such to only appear when I need them I used a lot of *name*.visible=false, and made only the ones I want to see .visible=true, and I think that is having an effect on the text.

If you need it I can supply the program (it's very small and basic, no functions, it's just a blueprint)

Trampas

Post up all your code

The Bollox

right here it is.

It must be something to do with the visible procedure

Merik

After

cmdLogon.Visible = False

Enter

Refresh

which will cause the form to refresh.

so the code looks like this

cmdLogon.Visible = False
Refresh

picFAQ.Print "Question: what is Airsoft?"

I can only assume the screen has not refreshed properly when it gets to the .print statement.

The Bollox

brilliant, thanks a lot

amen

check out
DoEvents as well

bonkey

If my memory isn't playing tricks on me, there's a Redraw property on PictureBox controls which you might also want to check up.

Or maybe its on all controls. I can't remember....