I want to have the entire form remain invisible until after all the code in
the Activated event handler has executed. The current behaviour - the form
appears to "freeze" before completely being painted, then hesitates a few
seconds before completely painting.
In my testing, I simulate the form paint problem in a normal SDI form. I
tried setting the .SetVisibleCore property, but this resulted in an
"activation loop". That is, the activated event handler calls
SetVisibleCore, SetVisibleCore raises the activated event. Any ideas?

Thanks,
RJ

What operations are you running in the Activated event handler? Can you
run them on another thread?

Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com




"RJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I want to have the entire form remain invisible until after all the code in
> the Activated event handler has executed. The current behaviour - the form
> appears to "freeze" before completely being painted, then hesitates a few
> seconds before completely painting.
> In my testing, I simulate the form paint problem in a normal SDI form. I
> tried setting the .SetVisibleCore property, but this resulted in an
> "activation loop". That is, the activated event handler calls
> SetVisibleCore, SetVisibleCore raises the activated event. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> RJ

Bryan, Unfortunately, the slow running code in the Activated handler, is
acquiring data to be displayed on the form, so I must wait for the data
acquisition code to complete. I thought about running the code on another
thread, but I still must defer visibility of the form.


"Bryan Phillips" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> What operations are you running in the Activated event handler? Can you
> run them on another thread?
>
> Bryan Phillips
> MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
> Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com
>
>
>
>
> "RJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> I want to have the entire form remain invisible until after all the code
>> in
>> the Activated event handler has executed. The current behaviour - the
>> form
>> appears to "freeze" before completely being painted, then hesitates a few
>> seconds before completely painting.
>> In my testing, I simulate the form paint problem in a normal SDI form. I
>> tried setting the .SetVisibleCore property, but this resulted in an
>> "activation loop". That is, the activated event handler calls
>> SetVisibleCore, SetVisibleCore raises the activated event. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> RJ
>

If it is possible, try to get your data before calling the Show method
on the form. Also, if this is the first form in the application, you
could display a splash screen while the data loads.

Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com



"RJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Bryan, Unfortunately, the slow running code in the Activated handler, is
> acquiring data to be displayed on the form, so I must wait for the data
> acquisition code to complete. I thought about running the code on another
> thread, but I still must defer visibility of the form.
>
>
> "Bryan Phillips" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:u77QzUg$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > What operations are you running in the Activated event handler? Can you
> > run them on another thread?
> >
> > Bryan Phillips
> > MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
> > Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "RJ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:#nvZd#f$(E-Mail Removed):
> >
>
> >> I want to have the entire form remain invisible until after all the code
> >> in
> >> the Activated event handler has executed. The current behaviour - the
> >> form
> >> appears to "freeze" before completely being painted, then hesitates a few
> >> seconds before completely painting.
> >> In my testing, I simulate the form paint problem in a normal SDI form. I
> >> tried setting the .SetVisibleCore property, but this resulted in an
> >> "activation loop". That is, the activated event handler calls
> >> SetVisibleCore, SetVisibleCore raises the activated event. Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> RJ
>
> >