Question

I’ve written an application with the following in the Program.cs:

        rsCursor.Wait();          // Load the settings         rsAppConfig.LoadConfig('iVirtualDocket.exe.config');          fSplash splash = new fSplash(IvdConfig.VERSION);         splash.Initialise();          DialogResult result = splash.ShowDialog();         rsCursor.Go();          if (result == DialogResult.Yes)         {             IvdInstances.Main.Initialise();             Application.Run(IvdInstances.Main);         } 

I use full screen on all my forms, so there is no X button, however I thought using Form.Close() performed the same function?

I want to be able to minimise my application from my main menu (Main) and then have it instantly appear again when the user re-runs the application. At the moment, my application executes the loading screen every time I re-run the application.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I need to be able to detect when my application is running and then restore the main menu when it is so that it’s not constantly loading itself into memory.

Answer 1

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport('coredll.dll')] static extern int ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);  ShowWindow(this.Handle, SW_MINIMIZED); 

This did the trick, this.Hide() didn’t work as it didn’t maximise the window again when I re-ran the app.