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POCreateParams() property shows default icon on inherited form
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copied!<p><strong>The Task</strong></p> <p>I manage a big application that is based on a main MDI form. All other forms are children of this MDI form or dialogs of the children. As it is a big application, opening and closing the child windows causes some flickering in the whole application. I was tasked to remove this flickering effect as it looks untidy. My main thought was to make all child windows inherit a "Master" form that would deal with all the commonplace functionality that all forms had to include. From here, I could fix any problems in this one central point which would make managing the application much easier.</p> <p><strong>The Problem</strong></p> <p>To resolve the flickering, I found a solution on the web that solves my problem. However, not long ago I found that this also introduced a new problem on the "Master" form where if any form had its "ShowIcon" property to false, the "Master" form would force it to be the default visual studio form icon. I narrowed this down to the anti-flicker solution I found on the web (below).</p> <pre><code>Private imActive As Boolean = False Private defaultEX As Integer = -1 Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As CreateParams Get Dim cp As CreateParams = MyBase.CreateParams If defaultEX = -1 Then defaultEX = cp.ExStyle End If If DesignMode = False and imActive = False Then cp.ExStyle = cp.ExStyle Or &H2000000 Else cp.ExStyle = defaultEX End If Return cp End Get End Property </code></pre> <p>If I comment this out, it works fine but the flickering is unbearable.</p> <p><strong>The Question</strong></p> <p>I would like to know if there is an alternative to the current solution or if there is something I can set within the "cp" variable that would remove the icon?</p> <p><strong>The Example</strong></p> <p>I have created a quick application that emulates part of my problem. I could not replicate the flickering as this is down to the application being big. However, in this test project, I have replicated a form that inherits a "Master" form with the above code on. This then disallows the icon to be removed (even in the designer). dropbox.com/s/mg9fyfoshakc69z/TestProject.zip</p> <p>For this replication, I did not need to include the MDI parent, I have however got an inherited form (MasterForm) and a form that inherits it (Form1). MasterForm has code that overrides the CreateParams property. This effects Form1 in such a way that when the toggle for ShowIcon for the window is set to false, it shows the default VB window icon instead of removing it.</p>

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