Splash screen flickering in WinForm

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Hi,

I have 2 winforms, named: Form1.cs and StartScreen.cs

Form1.cs starts this way:

C#

public Form1()
        {
            StartScreen sc = new StartScreen();
            sc.ShowDialog();
            
            InitializeComponent();
        }

I have 3 timers on StartScreen.cs: fadein, show, fadeout. Everything works fine, but I have only one problem:

When the splash screen starts to fade OUT, it flickers once. I tried to find solution for this, but no success. StartScreen's TopMost property is set to true.

Program.cs looks like this default:

C#

static class Program
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
            Application.Run(new Form1());
        }
    }

Can somebody show me the magic code to disable this annoying flickers please? What should I change?

Thanks

Posted 26-Sep-15 7:12am

DoomMaker79

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Thava Rajan 28-Sep-15 3:35am

try to use the optimized double buffer

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Thava Rajan · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-27T21:39:00

Solution 1

i am not sure what you are asking, but any way
the following link will help you
Setstyles[^]
use the double buffer option it will reduce the flickering,

but again it is purely depend on your code, i am just give a suggestion based on your question

Posted 27-Sep-15 21:39pm

Thava Rajan

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DoomMaker79 29-Sep-15 1:43am

Thanks a lot, this is the solution. I add this method to my StartScreen.cs and call it right before the InitializeComponent()

public void EnableDoubleBuffering()
{
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer |
ControlStyles.UserPaint |
ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint,
true);
this.UpdateStyles();
}