Re: Newbie Question: Doing tasks after form displays 'on load'

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> Do you (or anyone else) know if there is there an event that fires (on the
> main thread) AFTER the form has initally drawn itself? I would be content
to
> have the form frozen whilst the data is collected. At the moment, using
> OnLoad to load my data, it is frozen before anything is displayed - ie (in
> an SDI) the user double- clicks the exe file and then waits (with
'nothing'
> happening) for 10 seconds for the data to load and the form to paint.
>
You want to start doing stuff after the window has correctly painted without
using a thread.
In C# I have no clue yet how to do it, but in the MFC way, there existed a
"idle" windows message that I used to trigger execution after the paint. So
maybe someone here can find out how to do that in C#?


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