Close openfiledialog control

[Guest_imported]

When I click on the open button in an openfiledialog control in VB 2005 the control window stays on the screen until the entire sub routine is completed. How can I get it to hide when I click on open?

Thank you.

 

[jebenson]

The dialog is supposed to unload itself when it is finished. What you are seeing is likely an "afterimage" of the dialog that is staying on the screen because the subsequent code is cpu-intensive and is preventing the screen from refreshing. Try putting an Application.DoEvents after the OpenFileDialog.ShowDialog call.


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[Guest_imported]

I tried adding the application.doevents to the code like this:

opnChartIPTVCumChart.InitialDirectory = "C:\Program Files\Quality Database\Data Transfer"
opnChartIPTVCumChart.DefaultExt = "xls"
opnChartIPTVCumChart.FileName = ""
opnChartIPTVCumChart.ShowDialog()
xlApp.DoEvents()

The program runs fine, however at the end I get this error:

Public member 'DoEvents' on type 'ApplicationClass' not found.

I am using an instance of Excel to add charts to a new file. Since there are a lot of commannds the openfiledialog seems to stay there for a while.

Any other suggestions?

 

[jebenson]

DoEvents is a member of the System.Windows.Forms.Application class. try using it like this:

System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents



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[Qamgine]

Why not just unload it after you are done?

Dim comDialog as New OpenFileDialog
If comDialog.ShowDialog = DialogResult.Ok Then
'etc, etc
End If
comDialog.Dispose
comDialog = Nothing