C#

Richard Blythe wrote:

Keep in mind that my development PC loads the file perfectly and I manually copied the same .exe and all Dlls from the dev PC to the other PC.

public ChatMessageForm()<br />
      {<br />
          InitializeComponent();<br />
      }<br />

public partial class ChatMessageForm : Form<br />
{<br />
    public ChatMessageForm()<br />
    {<br />
        InitializeComponent();<br />
    }<br />
}

        private void ProcessChatMessageEvent()<br />
        {<br />
            ChatMessageForm c = new ChatMessageForm();<br />
            c.Show();<br />
<br />
        }<br />

public void OnEvent(Object sender, EventPublisher.EventPublisherEventArgs eventArgs)<br />
        {<br />
EventID nReceivedEvent = (EventID)eventArgs.iEventID;<br />
switch (nReceivedEvent)<br />
                {<br />
case EventID.eChatMessageEvent:<br />
                        ProcessChatMessageEvent();<br />
                        break;<br />
}<br />
       }

aei_totten wrote:

works properly outside of the switch

public void OnEvent(Object sender, EventPublisher.EventPublisherEventArgs eventArgs)
{
  //EventID nReceivedEvent = (EventID)eventArgs.iEventID;
  //switch (nReceivedEvent)
  //{
  //case EventID.eChatMessageEvent:

  ProcessChatMessageEvent();

  //break;
  //}
}

Richard Blythe wrote:

Hmm, so your saying that the following code would work:

MyForm F = new MyForm();
F.ShowDialog();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Output");

Gregory.Gadow wrote:

Added: After looking at the code you posted above, I can see the problem. After calling Show(), the method ends. The variable referencing your form goes out of scope and gets recycled: your form is not getting a chance to render before it gets disposed. If it absolutely has to be modeless, you will need to move the scope of your form's variable out.

   private Dictionary<string, ChatMessageForm> chatMessages = new Dictionary<string, ChatMessageForm>();<br />
...<br />
     string message, sender;          <br />
           message = "blah";<br />
           sender = "me";<br />
            if (!chatMessages.ContainsKey(sender))<br />
            {<br />
                chatMessages.Add(sender, new ChatMessageForm(sender));<br />
            }<br />
            chatMessages[sender].ShowDialog();}

//...
public frmMain()
{
   InitializeComponent();
   frmMain.Click += new EventHandler(frmMain_Click);
}

ChatForm frmChat;
void frmMain_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (frmChat == null)
    {
       frmChat = new ChatForm();
       frmChat.Show();
    }
    frmChat.BringToFront();
}