Hi There,

If this is in the wrong group, please inform me and I will
repost to the corrct one.

I am developing a simple MDI app in VB6, and have a splash
screen that loads on start of the application.  I am
trying to set the position to be centreowner, but whenever
I try to change the property from Normal - I get a message
stating "invalid property value".

Any advice on what I'm doing wrong (i am an amateur I'm
afraid to admit!!) will be gratefully received!!

TYIA

Child forms can be set to Manual only (as you've found)... but, since it's a
"splash screen", there's really no reason to make it an MDI child. If you
set MDIChild = False, you can use the other startup positions.

Here's a simple test.. I just added a new form and renamed it to
frmSplash... it worked with both Center Owner and Center Screen (preferred)
'===========
Private Sub MDIForm_Load()
   Dim t As Single

   frmSplash.Show vbModeless, Me

   t = Timer + 2 '2 sec
   Do While Timer < t
      DoEvents
   Loop

   Unload frmSplash
   Set frmSplash = Nothing
End Sub
'===========

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Heres some code to center a MDI child form;

Public Sub Centerchild(Parent As Form, Child As Form)

'Type: Public Sub
'Name: CenterChild
'Purpose: Center a child form within an MDI form
'Limitations: none
'Author: Veign
'Arguments: Parent is the MDI parent form, Child is the child form to center
'Return Value:
'Useage: Centerchild(myMDIForm, myChildForm)
'Notes:

Dim iTop As Integer
Dim iLeft As Integer

If Parent.WindowState = vbMinimized Then Exit Sub
    iTop = ((Parent.ScaleHeight - Child.Height) \ 2)
    iLeft = ((Parent.ScaleWidth - Child.Width) \ 2)
    Child.Move iLeft, iTop

End Sub

What Ken said is true, since its a splash screen theres no need for making
it a child form but I posted the code anyway...

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The easiest way is to make the splash form a top level window owned by
the MDI parent.  You can then just center the form over the MDI parent
using the following....

  With frmMDIParent
    Move .Left + ((.Width \ 2) - (frmSplash.Width \ 2)), .Top +
((.Height \ 2) - (frmSplash.Height \ 2))
  End With

To make the splash form owned by the MDI parent, see the description
of the second param to the Show statement in your VB help file.

HTH,
Bryan
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released on Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:35:35 -0700 bearing the
following fruit:

From the help file

StartUpPosition Property

Returns or sets a value specifying the position of an object
when it first appears. Not available at run time.

Since a splash screen is usually displayed before any other
forms then it seems strange that it would be centered based
on a form. Seems to me it should be centered in relation to
the screen.

I do all me centering in code and never ever use
StartUpPosition.

J

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