How can I make my form resize more smoothly?

Question

When resizing a form with many controls, the form looks bad because of flickering. What are some tips to have a smoother form resizing?

Answer 1

I've got around this as follows:

1. In the 'OnResize' event of the form, have a routine to hide all child controls and then start a timer with a tick of about 500ms.
2. When the timer fires, disable it and then set all child controls to visible.

By playing around with this activity you get a form that goes blank whilst you are sizing it, but then populates itself neatly when you 'let go'.

Bri