Splash Form Position

• Oct 29, 2020

By default, the start position of splash forms is specified as follows:

• SplashScreens are displayed centered against the screen;
• WaitForms are centered against their parent forms. The Splash Screen Manager tries to automatically locate the parent form.
• Splash images invoked via the static SplashScreenManager.ShowImage method are displayed in the same manner as WaitForms;

You can override the default start position as follows:

• To specify the manual start position for a splash form that is the Splash Screen Manager’s Active Splash Form (see SplashScreenManager.ActiveSplashFormTypeInfo), set the SplashScreenManager.SplashFormStartPosition property to Manual and specify the start point via the SplashScreenManager.SplashFormLocation property.

• To specify the manual start position for a splash form that is not the Splash Screen Manager’s Active Splash Form, use the last two parameters provided by the SplashScreenManager.ShowForm and SplashScreenManager.ShowImage method overloads:

  C#

  public static void ShowForm(Form parentForm, Type splashFormType, bool useFadeIn, bool useFadeOut, SplashFormStartPosition startPos, Point loc)
  public static void ShowImage(Image image, bool useFadeIn, bool useFadeOut, SplashFormStartPosition startPos, Point loc)