I have made an interface as I would like to use see it in my application. I am sure there are other ways of doing the same thing and if anyone has constructive comments I would be more that happy to be shown alternative solutions.
However, in this case the redrawing of the panels kills the app. Try using the mousewheel to scroll the area and you will see what I mean. I have seen excessive flickering and redrawing before and wondered how people dealt with the issue.
Is it possible to prevent repainting of all the panels until such time that the scroll has gone a bit further?
How do I make this interface feel more fluid and productive?
The suggestion certainly has an impact, it improves certain problems.
However, it introduces new problems. The setting for doublebuffer has a annoying side effect that now a "panel" is momentarily visibly drawn in the actual scroll bar area. it looks very weird.
What Delphi version do you use? I know there are at least in several Delphi versions, issues with the scrollbar handling in doublebuffered container controls. Sadly, these are issues as VCL level for which we haven't found a workaround.
If it was possible to surface an onscroll event then I could lock the repainting until the end of the scroll. That way the panels wouldn't repaint so often.