bigbondfan

i pretty sure this happens on any computer and it is not just that i have a slower computer. when i try to make an image move, it flickers. it doesn't on a picture box, but a picture box doesn't support transpareny and an image box does. does anyone know how to stop the flicker, or get the picture box to have transparency?

Rory

Use an API to draw the bitmaps, like BitBlt for your bog standard one, similar routines from the MSImg or GDI+ libraries, or DirectDraw if you're feeling clever.

Image "controls" actually just tell VB to redraw the image on the form_onpaint event, which is done really inefficiently using windows messages, hence the flickering. Picture boxes get a slight speedup from the fact they allocate a device context / independent bitmap but are still very slow.