VB Forum / General 2 / February 2004

Hello all,

I've got a question but maybe its just because vb is slow...

-> Q: Is there a way to suppend messages that may hinder the speed of a
section of code?

I have a form with a bunch of labels and textboxes and when the user clicks
a button I re-arange them all to new positions that resemble a new screen
for data entry. However, I'm trying to make it faster because it slugs a
little bit, and practially all I'm doing is positioning and resizing the
controls.

There's 30 Labels Max and 40 Text boxes Max per screen
And they are being repositioned ontop of a user control

Right now I make them all invisible then position them and then go back and
make them visible again. That made things much faster, but it still seems
awfully slow. Is this a vb thing?
I thought of the LockWindowUpdate API but I've experianced flickering when I
use that API for very breif intervals of locking the update and I heard
someplace that It's one of the those "Don't use it, even though its there"
API's..??

I get the impression that paint messages or something are still being
processed because there was not a great difference in speed when I tested it
on a 1.3 GHz XP vs. a Pentuim II Win98SE

Any insight would be very much appriciated,
Thanks,
-Philip