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 [form.]SHOW [style%]
 SCREEN.SHOW
 
 Usage Notes
   ■ Use SCREEN.SHOW to display all forms that have been hidden with the
     command SCREEN.HIDE. See ◄HIDE Method►
 
   ■ If the specified form is not loaded when the SHOW method is invoked,
     Visual Basic automatically loads it. See: ◄LOAD Statement►
 
   ■ When displaying a modal form, no user input (keyboard or mouse click)
     can occur in any other form until the modal form is hidden or unloaded.
     Your program must hide or unload a modal form (usually in response to
     some user action) before other forms can respond to events or accept
     user input. Because of this, it is not a good idea to use "SHOW 1" in a
     Form_Load event procedure unless you explicitly code an alternate way
     of removing or hiding the form. See: ◄Modal Vs. Modeless►
 
   ■ When a modeless form is displayed, code that occurs after the SHOW
     method is executed as it is encountered. When a modal form is displayed,
     code after the SHOW method is not executed until the form is hidden
     or unloaded. See: ◄HIDE Method►  ◄UNLOAD Statement►
 
   ■ Standard dialog boxes produced by Visual Basic functions such as MSGBOX
     and INPUTBOX$ are invoked by direct reference. They cannot be loaded,
     shown, or unloaded. See: ◄MSGBOX Function►  ◄INPUTBOX$ Function►