Flicker On form loading

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Hello,
I am making an application in vb.net 2012.
I have used split container, table layout panel and panels as container in my form.
I also have buttons, text boxes, tool strip,status strip,combo box, list view etc
the problem is when i load the form it flickers a lot. also when the list view columns width is changed while populating the list view it flickers and which doesn't look good. I have tried few solutions
1) i have set double buffered property to true
2) no container back color is transparent
3) to prevent flicker while loading i used suspendlayout() and resumelayout()

But it just reduced flicker a bit, its not completely gone.

Note: I have added images in table layout

Posted 4-Oct-12 0:41am

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Shahan Ayyub 5-Oct-12 7:44am

Have you used Application.DoEvents() some where ? or are you using loop to load something ? Does it flicker continues unless you close app or it flickers for some amount of time then becomes stationary ?

xrndMember 8-Oct-12 23:22pm

It flickers for a while loading for the first time. Nope,I haven't written any DoEvents() and yeah in some forms there are loops running on form loading. Can it cause so much flicker, i assumed only form controls can cause flicker.
But i have images in containers.

Shahan Ayyub 9-Oct-12 1:39am

>>Can it cause so much flicker
Yes it can. It is never recommended to load large amount of data on form load. May be loading too many pictures at Form_load causing this issue. Have you tried Form_Shown event ? or Have you tried using Application.DoEvents() ?

xrndMember 12-Oct-12 2:50am

Nope.i Don't know what is Applications.DoEvents(). Can it help reduce flicker.??

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