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calendar controlI have a calendar control that has runs a longish bit of code in the
ValueChanged event. How do I get the control to repaint before running the code. At the moment the calendar month view stays active while the code is running. Thanks in advance VS 2005 / C# / CF2 You can either call Application.DoEvents or execute your code on a
background thread. I recommend the latter approach. Bryan Phillips MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com Show quote "Dave" <Em***@email.org> wrote in message news:uY4#Hmo8GHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl: > I have a calendar control that has runs a longish bit of code in the > ValueChanged event. > > How do I get the control to repaint before running the code. > > At the moment the calendar month view stays active while the code is > running. > > Thanks in advance > > VS 2005 / C# / CF2 Hi Dave,
What you require is asynchronous processing. You'll have to run the time-consuming code in another thread to free the UI thread. You'll want to start a "background" process and handle an event when the process completes. You might need to disable (set Enabled=false) certain UI components before running code on another thread and returning so that while your code is working in the background your end-users won't be able to change their state. For instance, while processing the ValueChanged event for the Calendar, you'll probably want the Calendar to be disabled until the process completes; however, you'll want the entire application responsive to user interaction, including the painting of the calendar control, which is accomplished by freeing the UI thread and running the time-consuming code in a background process as I suggested. Check out the BackgroundWorker class. BackgroundWorker on MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8xs8549b.as -- Show quoteDave Sexton "Dave" <Em***@email.org> wrote in message news:uY4%23Hmo8GHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >I have a calendar control that has runs a longish bit of code in the ValueChanged event. > > How do I get the control to repaint before running the code. > > At the moment the calendar month view stays active while the code is running. > > Thanks in advance > > VS 2005 / C# / CF2 > Hi Dave,
The link apparently got chopped. Here's the complete URL: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8xs8549b.aspx -- Show quoteDave Sexton "Dave Sexton" <dave@jwa[remove.this]online.com> wrote in message news:ueqj0ty8GHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi Dave, > > What you require is asynchronous processing. You'll have to run the time-consuming code in another thread to free the UI thread. > You'll want to start a "background" process and handle an event when the process completes. You might need to disable (set > Enabled=false) certain UI components before running code on another thread and returning so that while your code is working in the > background your end-users won't be able to change their state. For instance, while processing the ValueChanged event for the > Calendar, you'll probably want the Calendar to be disabled until the process completes; however, you'll want the entire > application responsive to user interaction, including the painting of the calendar control, which is accomplished by freeing the > UI thread and running the time-consuming code in a background process as I suggested. > > Check out the BackgroundWorker class. > > BackgroundWorker on MSDN: > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8xs8549b.as > > > -- > Dave Sexton > > "Dave" <Em***@email.org> wrote in message news:uY4%23Hmo8GHA.5092@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>I have a calendar control that has runs a longish bit of code in the ValueChanged event. >> >> How do I get the control to repaint before running the code. >> >> At the moment the calendar month view stays active while the code is running. >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> VS 2005 / C# / CF2 >> > >  |
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