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

eliminate or reduce

Doevents

if you have them

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

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)

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

To unlock:
LockWindowUpdate False


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