setting Control.Region takes too much time

[Sagaert Johan]

Hi

I have a customcontrol that has a boolean state variable.
The control is placed over a picturebox.

Depending on the value i assign a new Region to the control.
The region is simple and contructed from a graphicpath containing 1 ellipse.
(size no more then 100 pixels)

if (state)
this.Region=new Region(pathA);
else
this.Region=new Region(pathB);
This construction takes 300ms to execute on a 600Mhz Mainboard.

Can someone explain why ?

Whats the workaround ?

Johan

[Oliver Sturm]

Hello Sagaert,

>This construction takes 300ms to execute on a 600Mhz Mainboard.

So? I don't think this functionality has been created with the idea in
mind that you'd change the region around in a busy loop, and for
initialization purposes I don't see how 300ms are much of a problem. Of
course it's not fast... see below.

>Can someone explain why ?

One reason is probably that rather slow machine - 600MHz is not a lot
these days. I'm tempted to use a lot stronger words :-)
Oliver Sturm
--
http://www.sturmnet.org/blog

[Sagaert Johan]

Hi

I removed the underlaying control with the backgroundimage set and replaced
it by a simple picturebox and now the regionchange only takes about 10ms

So it seems setting the region involves some repainting of the background
control.

"Oliver Sturm" <ol****@sturmnet.orgwrote in message
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Hello Sagaert,

This construction takes 300ms to execute on a 600Mhz Mainboard.

So? I don't think this functionality has been created with the idea in
mind that you'd change the region around in a busy loop, and for
initialization purposes I don't see how 300ms are much of a problem. Of
course it's not fast... see below.

Can someone explain why ?

One reason is probably that rather slow machine - 600MHz is not a lot
these days. I'm tempted to use a lot stronger words :-)
Oliver Sturm
--
http://www.sturmnet.org/blog

[Oliver Sturm]

Hello Sagaert,

>I removed the underlaying control with the backgroundimage set and replaced
it by a simple picturebox and now the regionchange only takes about 10ms

So it seems setting the region involves some repainting of the background
control.

Ah, that's interesting - I'm sure it does involve repainting, but
apparently that control you had in there before took a while longer to do
that than you should expect even on that machine :-) Good to hear you
figured it out.
Oliver Sturm
--
http://www.sturmnet.org/blog