metacard digest, Vol 1 #18 - 9 msgs

[Raymond E. Griffith]

on Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:04:15 -0600 Jacqueline Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com> 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

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