Redrawing Screen
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Hi all; I have a windows desktop application in which I have set as a background image, a graphic that I whipped up. Its nothing fancey, just some gradient colors, shadows, glow, that sort of stuff. I have tried different formats, jpg, png, gif, bmp, and with every one, when the application starts, and when I focus to a different window, then come back to the main one, it seems to redraw the screen slowly. Each control will flash on the screen, total time is maybe 1.5 - 2 seconds as all the controls flash. If I put regular system colors back in, there is no issue. Is there anything I can do to speed this up? the graphic files are not that big, 9 KB for the jpb image, 6 for the GIF. The BMP is large, but it doesnt seem to make a difference which one I use, the results are the same. Thanks I should note that the backgrounds are set on group boxes, and a few on some buttons.