I appreciate all of the feedback. The application does need to have all 50 viewed at the same time. The order can be changed, and they all need to be visible so they can be dropped in the right spot. The software currently save the image to the hard disk as an 800x600 jpg(very low res, only 50K or so) and then loads it as a thumbnail. So these are not all in memory. The only thing that stays in memory is a hi res scan of the bed so that the images can be cropped without having to go back to the scanner bed every time(there might be 5 separate photos that are scanned in at the same time, this saves tons of time when scanning lots of images.)
The problem is, even when the pictureboxes are empty, it takes forever for the screen to redraw(for example, when the screen is first displayed.) A listbox would work, but it looks so horrible, I won't use it.
The problem is, even when the pictureboxes are empty, it takes forever for the screen to redraw(for example, when the screen is first displayed.) A listbox would work, but it looks so horrible, I won't use it.