Thanks Viv
I'll have alook at this post.
Regards,
Gerard


>>Is there a way to temporarily Hide everything on a form, while I populate Tab pages, grids, controls etc. (which takes about 1 to 2 seconds)
>>There is a lot of flickering going on and it would be neater if I could stop this form being visible to the user
>>I've tried SuspendLayout and ResumeLayout but it does not hide all the flickering
>>Tia
>>Gerard
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>Maybe this will help: http://www.bobpowell.net/doublebuffer.htm