fast updates to textbox?

20 Nov 2007 1:08 AM

federico

Hello I have an application that iterates through the messages of a mailbox.
The program does fine the job of moving messages that match a criteria. I
would like to add to the program the capablity of displaying a progress
window. Ideally, the progress window should have a textbox control that
display very fast the subject of each email it is examining. The user would
not be able to read the contents of the textbox, but he would be happy
knowing that the program is working.

I tried serveral combinations of suspendlayout, resumelayout, performlayout,
but nothing seem to work.

Any advice you could give me will be greatly appreciated.

federico

20 Nov 2007 1:31 AM

Kerry Moorman

federico,

Did you try calling the textbox's Refresh method after placing text into the
textbox?

Kerry Moorman

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"federico" wrote:

> Hello I have an application that iterates through the messages of a mailbox.
> The program does fine the job of moving messages that match a criteria. I
> would like to add to the program the capablity of displaying a progress
> window. Ideally, the progress window should have a textbox control that
> display very fast the subject of each email it is examining. The user would
> not be able to read the contents of the textbox, but he would be happy
> knowing that the program is working.
>
> I tried serveral combinations of suspendlayout, resumelayout, performlayout,
> but nothing seem to work.
>
> Any advice you could give me will be greatly appreciated.
>
> federico
>
>
>

20 Nov 2007 2:04 AM

Trevor Benedict

Fedrico,
Have you thought about a StatusBar control to display this as a Status.
Secondly, you could also think about Application.DoEvents and here is some
more food for thought http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000370.html

Regards,

Trevor Benedict
MCSD

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"federico" <feder***@michosa.com> wrote in message
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> Hello I have an application that iterates through the messages of a
> mailbox. The program does fine the job of moving messages that match a
> criteria. I would like to add to the program the capablity of displaying a
> progress window. Ideally, the progress window should have a textbox
> control that display very fast the subject of each email it is examining.
> The user would not be able to read the contents of the textbox, but he
> would be happy knowing that the program is working.
>
> I tried serveral combinations of suspendlayout, resumelayout,
> performlayout, but nothing seem to work.
>
> Any advice you could give me will be greatly appreciated.
>
> federico
>

20 Nov 2007 4:32 AM

Cor Ligthert[MVP]

federico,

The do events does this job, however be aware that you are slowing your
program down.

The do events on one side and by painting on the other side. Painting is the
most time expensive part of almost every program.

Cor

21 Nov 2007 12:09 AM

federico

Thank you very much. Your advice is very helpfull

federico
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"federico" <feder***@michosa.com> wrote in message
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> Hello I have an application that iterates through the messages of a
> mailbox. The program does fine the job of moving messages that match a
> criteria. I would like to add to the program the capablity of displaying a
> progress window. Ideally, the progress window should have a textbox
> control that display very fast the subject of each email it is examining.
> The user would not be able to read the contents of the textbox, but he
> would be happy knowing that the program is working.
>
> I tried serveral combinations of suspendlayout, resumelayout,
> performlayout, but nothing seem to work.
>
> Any advice you could give me will be greatly appreciated.
>
> federico
>