can I suspend drawing?

[ultra2]

I create commandbuttons in runtime, I want to suspend the form to draw itself for the while all the buttons are created.

suspend form drawing //how to do this?

loop ... load commandbutton(i)

resume form drawing

[RhinoBull]

Load your form but do not show it until all buttons are created ...
Here is a quick sample:

Sub Main()
    Load Form1
    Form1.CreateAllButtons
    Form1.Show 'or Visible = True
End Sub

[Mark Gambo]

I create commandbuttons in runtime, I want to suspend the form to draw itself for the while all the buttons are created.

suspend form drawing //how to do this?

loop ... load commandbutton(i)

resume form drawing

is this what you were looking for:

Private Declare Function LockWindowUpdate Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
 
LockWindowUpdate frmForm.hwnd 'Locks the Form
'Load or do what you need to do here
LockWindowUpdate 0 'Unlocks the form