alwaysBuffer vs. screenNoPixMaps

Phil Davis davis.phil at comcast.net
Thu Mar 3 16:47:05 EST 2005


Hi Scott -

Thanks for the response. I too always turn alwaysBuffer on. I was
getting a flicker when showing a modal error dialog in the middle of a
seconds-long process, but after further debugging I see it's coming from
unneeded show's and hide's in my code. Imagine that!

Thanks.
Phil


Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, Phil Davis  wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there any initial-flicker-prevention benefit to setting the
>>'alwaysBuffer' of a dialog stack to true? Or is it really all dependent
>>on the 'screenNoPixMaps' property?
> 
> 
> Did you ever get an answer to this Phil?  I routinely enable the
> alwaysBuffer of ALL stacks, all the time, and have yet to encounter any
> flicker.  More often than not, any flicker that folks observe in stacks is
> usually caused by an alwaysBuffer setting of false.  Are you seeing
> something different?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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