How do I display a hidden form?

The user presses a button on the form and the handler for the button does

Me.Hide

to hide the form and let them do some stuff in Autocad, like select a entity.

Once the entity is selected, it does me.show again. but this is not right, because the show method is displaying a modal dialogue and thsu my code halts until that dialogue is dismissed.

So I tried using the me.visible = true and it said it is not valid code.

In visual c++ programming you do the domodal call ONCE and hide/show the window at will. So I am not sure what I am supposed to do to get this working right. All I want is ability to hide and show the same window, not unload and reload or anything...

Andrew

 

The process should be:

a. Hide form;
b. User do something on Acad drawing editor: picking/moving entities...
c. Manipulate controls on form accroding to user's action
d. Show form

Example:

Me.Hide

Dim pt As Variant

pt=ThisDrawing.Utility.GetPoint(, vbcr & "Pick a point: ")

Me.txtPointX=pt(0)
Me.txtPointY=pt(1)

Me.Show

Now, the dialog box shows X, Y coordinates of the point user just picked.
The key point is, the hidden form is still an instance of a UserForm object,
reachable in memory, unless you use Unload Me, instead of Me.Hide.

right, because the show method is displaying a modal dialogue and thsu my
code halts until that dialogue is dismissed.

window at will. So I am not sure what I am supposed to do to get this
working right. All I want is ability to hide and show the same window, not
unload and reload or anything...