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[TheMaskedPencil]

Ok, I have been searching for the answer to this one. How do I get a form to refresh? I have tried Form1.Refresh() and Form1.Update(). The whole form and everything on it needs to refresh. I have looked on Google, I have search three different forums. The person who solves this will be a legend!

Thanks

The Masked Pencil
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[jmcilhinney]

You just call Me.Refresh

[TheMaskedPencil]

Nope doesn't work. I just want the form to reload so that the Load action is fired off again, but that doesn't do it.
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[jmcilhinney]

There is a difference between refreshing a form, which means redrawing it, and reloading its data. The Load event is raised only once on each form. If you want to raise that event again you would need to close the current form and create a new instance. Why don't you take the code out of your Load event handler and put it in its own method. Then you can call that method from the Load event handler and any other time you need it. That's what methods are for.

[TheMaskedPencil]

Well it has been a while but I figured out the problem. Rather than put the code that works directly under the forms Load area, just put the code in a function that is called when the form is loaded. It works for form loads, reloading a listbox that pulls from a database, and other odd problems. Try and see!
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[jmcilhinney]

That's exactly what I told you to do six months ago. Did you read my post?