Transparent labels taking too long to paint

[Guest]

I'm trying to set up a GUI that lets me go from one panel to another, each
having a background image. The problem I'm having is that on each panel there
will be a lot of controls, a lot of labels to be honest, and the labels are
drawing really slow because I've set them to be transparent(the groupbox is
transparent so the labels inside are also transparent). Is there anything I
can do that will get rid of the delay it takes to paint them?

demo app(VS 2003 solution files):
http://www.the-gambit-site.com/BasketballFormTest.zip

 

[Frank Hileman]

Best way to fix the problem is to draw the labels yourself using
System.Drawing on a custom control, or use an optimized graphics system such
as VG.net to draw them.

Regards,
Frank Hileman

check out VG.net: www.vgdotnet.com
Animated vector graphics system
Integrated Visual Studio .NET graphics editor

 

[Bill Koukoutsis]

You could try double-buffering your forms. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...stemwindowsformscontrolclasssetstyletopic.asp
for more info.

Regards,
Bill