Freeze() 'n' Thaw()

[Steve Cookson]

Hi,

When I load a new item, I have a number of tabs being filled in one
pass.  Maybe 60 controls for each tab (including plain text labels) and
maybe 10 tabs.  It takes a few seconds, during which time the screen
is permanently being refreshed.  I wondered if I could use Freeze() and
Thaw() to a) make it look nicer, b) speed up the performance since
the access to the screen is presumably the slowest thing going on.

So I tried:

$self->Freeze();
while (my $loc_row=$loc_sth->fetchrow_hashref()){     #Get one row at a time
    __layout_tab ($self, $loc_row);
}
$loc_sth->finish();
#Close statement handle
$self->Thaw();

But to no avail.  Looking at the help doc, seems to indicate that it's not
ported to all platforms.  I'm running on MSW, but planning to port to Linux.

Regards

Steve

 

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