form loads when?

[archer_coal]

Does anyone know if the formload event fires before the form is actually painted or after?

I know this sounds like a silly question but what if you were posting a loop - counter through the label.text during the form load. Wouldnt you see the counter increment unless the form didnt paint itself until the form load code was complete?


The reason i ask is that on occasion, some of my labels seem to retian their default properties rather than the formload properties.

ex.
in the Formload event
label1.text = "form load value"

but in the properties window for the label i set the text to
"default value"

after the form loads at runtime the label reads "default value"

 

[mutant]

Form load is fired before paint.

 

[Winston]

if things aren't being set well then my advice is putting your code after the initialize component found in the Windows Generated Regions code

 

[archer_coal]

re

Thanks for your help, i'll give the Initialize componant idea a try.