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[BobBob10]

I have a program that when you go from one form to another, on the second forms load event I run code that dynamically creates controls and places them in a panel.

However, only after the program has ran the controls appear. What I want is the controls to appear as the program runs.

How could I do this?

 

[jebenson]

This is normal behavior. The controls won't appear on the form until the Form_Paint event fires, which occurs after Form_Load finishes executing. I believe the events fire in this order when a form is created (someone plese correct me if I'm wrong):

Construtor
Load
Layout
Activated
Paint



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[SqueakinSweep]

Yes..thats about it.
I seem to recall, that if you need to use an event after form paint, but just before the form displays, then you can utilise the visiblechanged event.


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[BobBob10]

How do I get round this?