A smoother way to display a form anyone ?

[davidq]

I have a problem with a couple of forms in an app I am using,
The main form (which is an MDI child) has two MSFLexgrids with about 20 rows in each, one picture box with a shape and an icon in it. I call it from a menu of another form, when I call it I run a couple of functions which use objects on that form. Eg: One to fill the grids, one to color the grids.

Like this

Call Get_Rows
Call Color_Rows
frmselect.show

Problem is I see the grids first with the form I called the new form from visible in sections of the screen not covered by the grid for a couple of seconds before it evetually draws in. Autoredraw is false and clip controls is true. Does anyone know of an easy way to improve this ?

Thanks.

Try something like:

Private Sub menu_Click()
Load frm
DoEvents
frm.Show
End Sub

That is, if you have the code in your form load event.

Private Sub Form_Load()
Call Get_Rows 
Call Color_Rows 
frmselect.show 
End Sub