Window / Form refreshing issue

hi,

this is the first time i've looked at windows forms and i know that im just doing something very silly.

I have a simple form which creates a filesystemwatcher with associated events. When a folder has images dropped in it my code is called which updates a ListBox, does some image processing, updates a database and updates a viewer control on the MainWindow form. However when it's processing a number of images one after another the window won't refresh. I've tried adding a this.Refresh() after i update the listbox and viewer, but cannot seem to get it working.

It's a dead simple little app that's designed to chug away and i don't really want to get into threading as it's simply not worth it for this test.

So am i right in assuming that the processing is stopping window refresh events and if so, what method is best to force a refresh during this processing

thanks in advance
paul

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Window / Form refreshing issue

Lau Han Ching
The easiest way is probably calling Application.DoEvents() every now and then. It gives the form time to handle all the messages it received (including the refresh messages).
Window / Form refreshing issue

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