Why does Form1 keep closing itself?

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Hello there,

When I click a button, it shows a camera viewing screen. on that form's load event, it tries to connect to a camera on a serial port. I have no camera attached, so it shows a customized error, and then should close the form and show Form1.

The problem is that Form1 never shows, and I've debugged, to find that the Form_Formclosing event never fires, although the handle is correct.

Please don't tell me there's corruption as the project is huge and I don't want to rewrite it

-ricky

Posted 29-Sep-13 3:05am

Rixterz123

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Sriram Bala 29-Sep-13 9:14am

Hi,
Post your source code this will help us to have look and see we can provide any solution.
Sriram.B

[no name] 29-Sep-13 9:36am

Thanks for your interest- there is so much code that I don't know what to post- I've hosted my project here so please download and run to see what I mean- you have to OK the msgboxs until the main form shows, then click the button at the bottom that says "View live video". then a few msgboxs later, the whole project will close.
http://www1.datafilehost.com/d/d1af6ee6

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Sep-13 10:25am

"So much code"? It simply means that you are wasting your time. You either need to find a problem by yourself, or get help. To get help, you would need to do some work. Typically, you could try to write scaled-down version of your code, strip it down until you get a really small sample yet manifesting the problem. Chances are, it would help you to locate the problem by yourself. If not, your sample would be good for showing here.

There is no such thing as miracle. There can be too many ways to screw up things. We don't know which one did you use.

—SA

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Mike Meinz · Answer 1 · 2013-09-29T03:12:00

Solution 1

The form does not show until the Form_Load event is complete. To show it earlier in the Form_Load event, place Me.Show in the Form_Load event at the location where you want the form to be displayed.

Posted 29-Sep-13 3:12am

Mike Meinz

Updated 29-Sep-13 3:19am

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[no name] 29-Sep-13 9:25am

please see my other comment