Best way to refresh screen

[Björnke von Gierke]

Most likely your examples are part of larger scripts. Always make sure that you unlock the screen as often as you lock it. 'lock screen' is symetrical additive, and not on/off switches like most other properties. So if you do two locks, and one unlock the screen is still locked. If that is not your problem, sometimes LC can be a bit cautious with screen refreshes, it tries to do some optimisation by not actually showing all screen changes all the time.

In that case try to experiment with "wait". Personally I like this form to force a screen refresh (again, only if lock screen is not enabled):

wait with messages for 0 seconds

note that 'with messages' can impede the speed of your code, and I haven't tested if it's actually better then without. However it seemed to be the best way to make sure (again if lock screen is not enabled somewhere) to get a screen refresh.

As a final note, if your script runs in a 'resizeStack' handler, never use lock screen (again because of internal optimisation the screen is actually already locked in an opaque way).

On 01.10.2013, at 01:36, prothero at earthednet.org wrote:

> This seems like it should be easy, but I can't find anything in the documentation.
> 
> I have a large map image that I want to draw onto. I have defined a viewport, which is a graphic rectangle and all parts of the map that are not within the viewport are hidden. The large map will move around, magnify, etc. This all works. I want to draw symbols on the visible part of the map, and in order to make this efficient, I take a snapshot of the part of the map that's in the viewport and will use that for the symbols. 
> 
> To do the snapshot, I first set the visible of the snapshot image to false, take the snapshot of the map, then set the visible of the snapshot image to true.
> 
> Set the visible of snapShotImage to FALSE
> take snapshot -- this takes the snapshot of the snapsShotImage
> Set the visible of the snapShotImage to TRUE --this does not refresh the screen. 
> 
> I can get it to work if I do:
> Set the visible of snapShotImage to FALSE
> take snapshot -- this works
> wait 0.2 seconds
> Set the visible of the snapShotImage to TRUE --this does refresh the screen
> 
> Is this the best way to force a screen refresh???
> 
> Bill
> 
> William Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
> 
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