on Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:04:15 -0600 Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied to Scott Rossi's excellent help: > > Scott Rossi wrote: >> >> Recently, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: >> >>> I have a set of scrolling list fields that flicker like mad whenever I >>> update their contents, which I do repeatedly. Locking the screen doesn't >>> help. Is there a work-around? >> >> Is the alwaysBuffer property of your stack set to false (disabled checkbox)? > > Aha! Thank you. :) Works great now, I forgot all about that.
I have found that locking the screen sometimes makes things worse (strange but true!). The trouble comes, I think, because it adds more time to an update action. If there is a series of items to be done for updating the contents of a field, I try to do those things in variables and behind the scenes and ahead of time as much as possible. I put a lock screen in when the field itself is updated -- and remove it afterwards. If there is a lot to do, and some things can be done *after* the field has been updated, I do that as well. Alwaysbuffer works great most of the time, but lots of things happening at once can still give trouble if you don't time things carefully. Raymond > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > --__--__-- _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
