How to avoid flickering in TableLayoutPanel in c#.net

c# winforms tablelayoutpanel
Vyasdev Meledath picture Vyasdev Meledath · Jul 13, 2011 · Viewed 18.3k times · Source

I am using a TableLayoutPanel for attendance marking purposes. I have added controls (a Panel and a Label) inside of this TableLayoutPanel and created events for them. In some conditions I have cleared all of the controls and proceeded to bind the same controls in different position of TableLayoutPanel. While re-binding the controls, the TableLayoutPanel flickers and is far too slow in initializing.

Answer

Ian picture Ian · Jul 13, 2011

Suspend the layout until you've added all your controls on.

TableLayoutPanel panel = new TabelLayoutPanel();
panel.SuspendLayout();

// add controls

panel.ResumeLayout();

Also look at using Double Buffering. You'll have to create a sub-class of the TableLayoutPanel. See an example here.

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