Tool window flickering on Activate()

What happens if you call SuspendLayout on the host control before doing this and ResumeLayout afterwards? The problem here is that each time you reactivate a tool window, it's running through the layout for the control hierarchy that is affected.

I'm having the same problem. when I activate or close a toolwindow, one of my toolwindows are drawn on top of my toolbar (actipro toolbar), then it draws the toolbar on top of the toolwindow and moving the toolwindow below the toolbar again. This creates a rather big flicker.

Only one of my toolwindows have this behaviour though, and so far I have only seen 2 things that is making this toolwindow different from the others, and that is that it is set to
Dock = System::Windows::Forms::DockStyle::Fill; and that it doesn't have a titlebar.

I tried suspending pretty much all controls layout, but that did not result in anything, except a little greater understanding of the problem.

I tried to double check with your dockform example in the example suite , since that has rather the same layout as our application and doesn't behave that way. But this example uses the standard windows toolbar from what I can tell.

It is not always the toolbar that gets "overdrawn", sometimes it is another toolwindow, but only if that window is to the left of the toolwindow with "fill". Sometimes the toolbar is having correct behaviour. My guess it that it depends on the order it draws the different parts.

Any suggestions or ideas?

/Roy

[Modified at 06/25/2007 09:00 AM]

Could one of you put together a C# sample project that shows this happening so we could check it out? Then email it to our support address? That would be most appreciated.