Avoid flicker in a ListView

I'm using VB5, How I will avoid the Flicker in a ListView Control when I update it?
Anybody have an Idea
Thanks

[makai]

eliminate or reduce

Doevents

if you have them

[jrobertraj]

I am not using do events anywhere but it is still flickering

[SACEIT]

There is an api (Lockwindow) you can use to lock the graphic update on your form (if it is a Child one, lock the Mdi, not the Child). Locking graphic before and unlocking after the update, will avoid all kind of flickering.
(remeber: to unlock = pass False to the api
and you cannot lock more than one window each time)

[Cimperiali]

The api is
Private Declare Function LockWindowUpdate Lib "user32" (ByVal hwndLock As Long) As Long

To unlock:
LockWindowUpdate False


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