Re: Screen flicker

[Joe]

Thanks.

Joe

On 8 Feb 2026 15:36, Richard Shann <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote:

On Sun, 2026-02-08 at 12:55 +0000, Joe wrote:
> Hi Richard, 
> When I enter text into a multi-line text item, a heading, or a lyric,
> Denemo is accepting it very slowly. 
> A black window, presumably a cmd window, opens ad shuts before each
> letter appears in the box.
What is happening is that Denemo is typesetting it at each keystroke,
which involves invoking lilypond as an external program. There are two
ways of compiling lilypond for windows, one which starts a terminal
("cmd window") and one not. It used to be the case that
LilyPond created both versions, calling one lilypond-windows.exe or
some such, but looking at their latest version there is only one:
lilypond.exe
I don't know if you are using a version of LilyPond bundled in with
Denemo or whether you have it separately downloaded (and pointed to in
your preferences), but if neither of these has a version of LilyPond
that does not create a terminal then you will need to workaround by
writing your text separately (in a text editor) and pasting it in to
Denemo. I don't have a windows box to test, but I'll ask around...

>  It is very tiresome.
> Have I put in an incorrect setting?

no, there is nothing to turn it off :(

Richard




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> Joe