Does the Photoshop DOM have the equivalent of Excel's Application.ScreenUpdating property?

[jmw1960001]

I'm automating Photoshop with vb.net using the photoshop interop dll.

When automating Excel, I can turn off the user interface by setting the Excel application object's ScreenUpdating property to false. This prevents the screen from flickering and improves performance.

Is there an equivalent method using the Photoshop DOM?

Thanks.

[Michael_L_Hale]

I don't think so. With javascript we do tricks like hide the panels, set the doc zoom to something very small. etc to speed things up.

With VB would you be able to bring another app to the front? Photoshop does not refresh the screen if it is not visible( hidden behind another app ).

[Tom Ruark]

I would turn the entire application object's visibilty off with this property.

Visible Boolean Read-write. Indicates whether the Adobe

Photoshop CS5 application is the front-most/active

application.