VB6 problem -- Can see right through command box to screen behind.

When using VB6 there are times when I want to leave a form and then bring it back in it original form.

I use the following statements
unload form
form.show

However, in many cases the last command box that I pressed before performing the above two statements comes back transperent. By transperent, I mean I can see the window behind the form in the command box. In most cases it is the code for the form. Any caption that should have been in the command box is gone.

Any suggestion on how to bring back the entire form?

 

sounds like a rendering issues, try throwing in a DoEvents()

 

Not familiar with "rendering problem". Where can I get more info about this problem so I can better fix this problem?

 

it sounds to me like there is something happening that isn't allowing the form to 'update', the DoEvents command forces the application to take time out and redraw the screen.

for example if you had the following code to loop through the numbers 1 to 1000 and display the number as the form caption, it would loop through without actually updating the form and you would just see the 1000 at the end

Code:

Dim a as integer
For a = 1 to 1000
     me.Caption = a
Next

However the following code would take a break from the number crunching to make sure the caption was displayed each time.

Code:

Dim a as integer
For a = 1 to 1000
     me.Caption = a
     DoEvents()
Next

Sorry if I havn't explained that very well lol, it made sense in my head