UI Delay [modified]

viciouskinid

I am having some trouble when I try to load some UI. If you can download my code http://www.2shared.com/file/6531405/908ada48/Delay.html[^] and then click on the new file icon the graphics will show. I have 2 issues. firstly the panels, treview and property grids have a small but noticeable delay when they are being shown. You can see the controls incomplete as they are being drawn, it looks really messy. Is there a way to remove this delay? Second, as you can see in the code I have a border around my UI. I dont think just drawing it is the best way to do it because when I resize the main window the refreshing causes the line to flicker. I have resulted in just turning it off when resizing. I think that it is possible to make a custom panel control and have this border drawn onto that. If so, and if it will solve the problem, can someone help me create this control. Thanks As requested my code is below.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

using MyShapesCollection;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
panel1.Visible = false;
}

    private void toolStripButtonNew\_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {


        this.SuspendLayout();
        panel1.Visible = true;
        Paint1();
        this.ResumeLayout();
    }

    private void Form1\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }

    private void panelMB\_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        int \_ShadowDistance = -11;

        Shapes shapes = new Shapes();
        Color Main = Color.FromArgb(105, 161, 191);
        Color Border = Color.FromArgb(210, 230, 250);
        Color Shine = Color.White;
        Color Centre = Color.White;



        shapes.Draw.ShadowedBorder(panelMB, e, \_ShadowDistance, Main, Shine, Centre, Border);
    }

    private void toolStripButtonOpen\_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        panel1.Visible = false;
    }

    private void toolStripButtonSave\_Click(object sender, EventArgs

Henry Minute

You might get lucky, but no one in their right mind is going to download stuff from someone they don't know. You would be better to edit your post and include the section of code giving the problem. Don't forget to use the 'code block' widget, or put in the pre tags manually.

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Luc Pattyn

Henry Minute wrote:

no one in their right mind is going to download stuff from someone they don't know

That sure stopped me. :-D

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MumbleB

The length of the modifed post stopped me dead in my tracks!!!

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