Forms are slow to paint

[Guest]

I have a simple form with only a few controls on it. The problem is that you
can basically watch the form paint. I know the first time it runs it must
JIT the form, but other loads have the same problem. It paints faster but
you can still watch the form draw each section.

There is no data access on this form all it is doing is drawing a few simple
controls. Is there any way to stop this from happening. To not display the
form until everything is drawn?

Thanks,

 

[Bill Koukoutsis]

Hi Eric,

Try double-buffering your form. You can find info on this at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...stemwindowsformscontrolclasssetstyletopic.asp .

Regards,
Bill

 

[Guest]

That seemed to really help. It still has a problem on the main form, but I
think that might be some of the 3rd part controls I am using and they are not
dubble buffering.

Thanks for the help.

Eric Renken

Hi Eric,

Try double-buffering your form. You can find info on this at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...stemwindowsformscontrolclasssetstyletopic.asp .

Regards,
Bill