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How to double buffer .NET controls on a form?

How can i set the protected DoubleBuffered property of the controls on a form that are suffering from flicker? ...

How to avoid flicker while handling WM_ERASEBKGND in Windows dialog

I have a dialog that resizes. It also has a custom background which I paint in response to a WM_ERASEBKGND call (currently a simple call to FillSolidRect). When the dialog is resized, there is tremendous flickering going on. To try and reduce the flickering I enumerate all child windows and add them to the clipping region. That see...

Skinned C# form with huge black flicker while resizing!

Hi, I'm trying to create some skinned forms (just the border and caption) with a different approach than you usually see but I'm having some issues with form flickering while I resize the form. I don't know how else to explain the problem, so here's a video I created to demonstrate the problem: http://www.screencast.com/t/AIqK9Szmz Als...

c# flickering Listview on update

I have a list view that is periodically updated (every 60 seconds). It was anoying to me that i would get a flicker every time it up dated. The method being used was to clear all the items and then recreate them. I decided to instead of clearing the items I would just write directly to the cell with the new text. Is this a better approac...

setTimeout () moving div with iframe causing flicker in firefox only

I have a horizontal scroll created in javascript that works in IE and Chrome, however I get a flicker in Firefox 2 and 3. The div that is moving contains an iframe with images and text with absolutely positioned divs. (see code below.) Problems: 1) The content appearing in either the div to the left or the right of the animating d...

drawImage in Java applet flickers in Safari

I'm having a flicker problem in a Java applet in Safari (Mac). However, it's not the usual double buffering problem. I have isolated it down to one single drawImage call (no redundant repaint, no clear is called), which gives a white flicker before painting the image but not on every repaint. In fact, I measured the duration of the draw...

Flicker when swapping inner Panel (Java AWT)

Hi, Just a small problem. Currently coding a Java project for a Dell Axim X51 with J9 installed. The problem is to do with my interface, for different screens I simply swap a nested Panel (note its running 1.4 and NO swing), so remove(panel) - add(newPanel). The problem is when it swaps the panels the time taken to do so is visible and ...

sIFR load before rest of page?

Hiya, Is it possible to have sIFR "preload" or load before the rest of the page content? At present it is the last thing to load (due to the text position) and as it's quite an obvious part of the page I get a huge mash-up of text replacement all in a quick flurry which is not very appealing. It looks like the site is having an epilep...

Swing component flickering when updated a lot

Hi, I've got a couple thousand lines of code somewhere and I've noticed that my JTextPane flickers when I update it too much.. I wrote a simplified version here: import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public class Test { static JFrame f; static JTextPane a; static final String NL = "\n"; public static void main(Strin...

Images flickering in IE

Hi, I am facing an issue with IE6 : every time I mouse over an image the image will reload and flicker. This is due to the fact that IE has an option "check new version of stored pages all the time" which is basically "reload everything all the time". I found some fixes on google : Adding <meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="revea...

UpdatePanel - Flickering Combobox

Scenario - Outer update panel u1 Controls on u1 (wrapped in a div) - c1,c2,c3, t1,u2 ( t:textbox, c: combo, u: update panel) Control outside u1 - c1 - combo u2 has trigger as c2 - selected index changed. I've some controls like textboxes and combos inside a div(d1) The div is wrapped in an updatePanel(u1). There is another update panel(...

Flickering child windows with alpha channels

When drawing child controls containing bitmaps with per-pixel alpha channels, we are getting quite a lot of flickering whenever they need to be redrawn. The actual blending is working correctly. I've found a lot of info about reducing flicker (such as this question or this site), but I can't seem to find anything that applies specifica...

Javascript image change causes embeded UserControls to flicker

I have a n html page being displayed in IE. It has some buttons made up of images with mouseover/mouseout events on them in JavaScript, and a bunch of embedded .Net UserControls. When the mouseover/mouseout events fire, I change the images src to something else (simple rollover effect). The problem is that the UserControls often (but ...

GNU Screen refresh problem

I've recently started using GNU Screen but have run into a very annoying problem. In any screen window if I press the left arrow key or backspace when there is nothing typed at the prompt the screen seems to refresh, causing a slight flicker. After typing some text at the prompt using the backspace or left arrow won't cause the flicker...

IE strict mode flicker on activex controls

I have a web page containing (amongst other things) several activex controls embedded in it. It's only ever rendered in IE, and it's in strict mode. If I highlight any text in the page (or rollover an image with an onmouseover event to change it's image or whatever), the controls all flicker horribly. If I change the page to quirks mo...

jQuery DatePicker causing Flicker in IE

Hi, I am using JQuery datepicker plugin and globally setting all fields with certain class name to use that ( $(".date-field").datepicker({ showOn: 'both' });) This causes the forms with a date field in them to flicker. I was wondering if anyone knows any workaround for this. thanks ...

Firefox Flicker Bug

Is there any sort of workaround for the bug that makes firefox flicker when decreasing the size of the document? Click here for a demo Click here for the demo in quirks mode (no DOCTYPE) I bet it could be fixed using javascript -- whenever the scrollbar shrinks, make sure to scroll the window up to prevent the flicker or something.. t...

slideToggle flickering in Firefox

Hello guys, I'm slidetoggling two divs in my page : the first one is in the top of the page and it works OK in both directions. But the second, located at the end of the page after some scrolling, suffers a flickering effect (in the divs around it) in Firefox when is clicked to be closed again. Here's a demo : http://paragraphe.org/sl...

Prevent Screen flickering during event

Hey guys, I know that in primitive versions of vb (as found in excel) there was a line that you could insert to prevent screens from flickering to and fro when it is trying to process something. Application.screenupdating = false I am currently using vb.net in Visual Studio 2008 but i was wondering if anyone knows the equivilent for th...

How to prevent a Windows Forms TextBox from flickering on resize?

There are plenty of articles addressing flicker in Windows Forms. The majority recommend setting DoubleBuffered = true or setting a bunch of ControlStyle flags. However, none of these help reduce a TextBox flickering. Here are a couple of related questions: How to double buffer .NET controls on a form? How to eliminate flicker in Wind...