If what takes so long is data retrieval, then you can spawn a new thread in the load event to retrieve the data. If it is the actual adding the data to the form that takes so long, then you can use a timer to execute and then turn it off when your done.
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 5:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] Displaying info on loading forms Two purposes to this post: 1. Ask a question 2. Mention some rather amusing behavior in Windows Forms. Questions runs... Is there any event in Windows Forms that is raised after a Form has been loaded? My form does a lot of processing at startup and I'd like it to display itself then do its processing, reporting to the user on its progress as it does it. I tried the Load event but that seems to get invoked just before the form is displayed. Amusing behavior runs... While looking for solutions to the above question I tried using the Activated event. The form contains a Panel and progress report would be written in the panel using Graphics.DrawString(). The result? 1. The main title bar of the form gets displayed (but not the rest of the form) 2. The calls to Graphics.DrawString() write the text over whatever happened to be on the screen where the form is going to be displayed. You end up with VS.NET sitting there with all this writing scrawled over it. 3. The form appears - but now without the writing. This quite tickled me - though I'm intrigued as to why it happened. I bet the Windows Forms team didn't intend it. Simon --------------------------------------------------------------- Simon Robinson http://www.SimonRobinson.com --------------------------------------------------------------- You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
