Using DrawEdge in a UserControl

[VB6Coder]

I've created a usercontrol that acts as a container, and draws a border using the DrawEdge API (to give that sunken Panel effect).

The only problem is that, in the Paint event I have to call UserControl.cls to make sure the DrawEdge is displayed correctly. This make the border flicker.

I've tried using the LockWindowUpdate to stop the flicker, but because it is a container, the LockWindowUpdate effects the drawing of the controls inside it.

Has anyone got any ideas how I can stop the flicker?



Cheers

[Dreamlax]

I had a case of this, but when I looked through the code I realised that 'UserControl.Refresh' were executed twice (because I had the Resize Sub point to another sub, which had UserControl.Refresh in it), and this caused the flicker. I took the first one out andno flicker.

[Rick Bull]

If you set the AutoRedraw property to True and then refresh then control after all your drawings are done it shouldn't flicker.

[VB6Coder]

Cheers Dreamlax and Rick.

I'll give your suggestions ago.