Winforms: How to display a "loading" form?
- by Martijn
I have a grid and when a row is double clicked a form is loaded. However a lot of data must be loaded, so I'd like to display a simple form with the text 'loading, please wait..'. And when all loading is finished, the form must disappear.
This is what I have right now, but it doesn't work:
Code that invokes the form with lots of data:
FormWithLotData form = new FormWithLotData();
form.ShowDialog(this);
Constructor of FormWithLotData:
// Show load form
FormIsLoading frm = new FormIsLoading();
_CloseLoadForm closeForm = new _CloseLoadForm(frm.Close);
System.Threading.Thread thread = new System.Threading.Thread(frm.Show);
thread.Start();
InitializeComponent();
this.Visible = false;
LoadAllData();
this.Visible = true;
// Close load form
Invoke(closeForm);
Hope you can help me out.
EDIT:
I'd like to show an animated gif on the loading form.
