window painting slow

[Guest]

I'm writing an application that will need to run on about 150 existing pc's.
The problem is that the window loads slowly. You can see the controls
painting.
I just have one background image and then some buttons, labels etc.
I'm pretty sure that the problem is the slow graphics card that these pc's
have.
I've tried double buffering, but that didn't seem to have much impact.
I've resorted to hiding all the controls behind a panel until the form is
loaded and then settting the panel to hide, but it still looks bad.
Any tips to making this run better would be appreciated.
BTW these pc's are running windows xp and I'm developing in VS2005.

Thanks for any help,
Jeff

 

[ClayB]

Here is a FAQ entry that discusses how you can freeze the painting on
a form or control.

http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/windowsforms/search/637.aspx

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Clay Burch
Syncfusion, Inc.

 

[PhilipDaniels]

I'm writing an application that will need to run on about 150 existing pc's.
The problem is that the window loads slowly. You can see the controls
painting.
I just have one background image and then some buttons, labels etc.
I'm pretty sure that the problem is the slow graphics card that these pc's
have.
I've tried double buffering, but that didn't seem to have much impact.
I've resorted to hiding all the controls behind a panel until the form is
loaded and then settting the panel to hide, but it still looks bad.
Any tips to making this run better would be appreciated.
BTW these pc's are running windows xp and I'm developing in VS2005.

Thanks for any help,
Jeff

Shot in the dark: Is the program being started via COM Interop or are
you just running it as normal?