Stopping form repainting

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Hi,

I'm making various changes to the controls on a form and the form flickers as images are loaded etc. Is there a way to stop the form showing the updates until they have been completed? e.g. Form.Painting = False

I'm sure this is very easy but I can't seem to find a way of doing it!

Many thanks

Alan
 
is it suspendlayout and resumelayout you need?

Dominique

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Alan Lambert said:
Hi,

I'm making various changes to the controls on a form and the form flickers
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as images are loaded etc. Is there a way to stop the form showing the
updates until they have been completed? e.g. Form.Painting = False
 
is it suspendlayout and resumelayout you need?
It is, indeed. I can't believe I missed that!

Many thanks

Alan
 
* =?Utf-8?B?QWxhbiBMYW1iZXJ0?= said:
I've looked at the link you suggested.

I would have thought that it would be quite simple within vb.net. I
assumed that there would be some equivalent to MSAccess's Form.Painting
= False.
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I don't think that there is an 1:1 replacement.
Is there no other way of doing this other than using Windows API? If
so, how do you access the API from vb.net? Is it in the same way as VB6?
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It's similar, but not equal.
I did look at the SuspendLayout/ResumeLayout suggested above but it
turns out they don't do what I wanted.
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It will only disable Windows Forms' layout logic.
 
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