Speeding up a form load

[jcrouse]

I have an app I'm calling from within another application. It has an 800x600 background image. It's not that large, 33kb. It also has 26 label controls. When it loads, the label controls come up rather slow and while they are appearing (just before) the background app is visible through the little windows where the label control goes. What would be the best way to get rid of this annoyance. I am on a pretty fast computer, Athlon XP1900+

Thank you
John

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Jcrouse,

The easiest way to find out what slows down is creating a project with
nothing on it and sees how fast than the form loads.

There should be not be much difference between those two, so by partial
copying and pasting you should find what is the part that stops the loading.

Normall a program should load exactly in the same time as by instance
explorere.

If that is not with the empty form, message us again?

Cor

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...torNgenexe.asp

Ken
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I have an app I'm calling from within another application. It has an
800x600 background image. It's not that large, 33kb. It also has 26 label
controls. When it loads, the label controls come up rather slow and while
they are appearing (just before) the background app is visible through the
little windows where the label control goes. What would be the best way to
get rid of this annoyance. I am on a pretty fast computer, Athlon XP1900+.

Thank you,
John

[jcrouse]

Well....Here's an update. I removed ALL my code and it still loaded slow. I then removed my background image BINGO. It seems to be the background image which is a 200kb JPG file. What are some of my options here? I tried the nGen but it didn't make any difference

Thank you
John

[jcrouse]

More Info.......The file is actually 128kb. I opened it in Photoshop and saved it as a WEB jpg. It's size dropped to 19kb. The issue still exists. The form also has 26 label controls on it. The labels are all set to transparent. This could also be a factor

Thanks
John

[jcrouse]

Me again. It seems to be the transparent labels. I gave the all a back color of black except the four that really need to be transparent and it is MUCH faster

Thanks
John