Flickering in a Windows Forms app
I figured it out. The trick is to remove the WS_EX_COMPOSITED flag after the form is shown. The full explanation and code at my blog: How to get rid of flicker on Windows Forms applications
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CSS3 Transform affecting other elements with chrome/safari
Working solution for flickering elements during transition in Chrome is to set up CSS for parent node: -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
TLabel and TGroupbox Captions Flicker on Resize
The only thing I have found to work well is to use the WS_EX_COMPOSITED window style. This is a performance hog so I only enable it when in a sizing loop. It is my experience that, with the built-in controls, in my app, flickering only occurs when resizing forms. You should first perform a quick … Read more
Android VideoView black screen
I meet the same problem, and solve it with the accepted solution above plus this: @Override public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) { mp.setOnInfoListener(new MediaPlayer.OnInfoListener() { @Override public boolean onInfo(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) { Log.d(TAG, “onInfo, what = ” + what); if (what == MediaPlayer.MEDIA_INFO_VIDEO_RENDERING_START) { // video started; hide the placeholder. placeholder.setVisibility(View.GONE); return true; … Read more
c# flickering Listview on update
The ListView control has a flicker issue. The problem appears to be that the control’s Update overload is improperly implemented such that it acts like a Refresh. An Update should cause the control to redraw only its invalid regions whereas a Refresh redraws the control’s entire client area. So if you were to change, say, … Read more
Fixed attachment background image flicker/disappear in chrome when coupled with a css transform
This has been a very common unsolved mystery. Recently I had the same problem, and ‘-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden’, proved to be less than useless (on my ‘fixed’ attached background), since the background just disappeared when it was set. (Additional Info: the reason is that when the background is set as fixed, it is almost similar to … Read more
iPhone WebKit CSS animations cause flicker
I added -webkit-backface-visiblity and that mostly helped, but I still had an initial flicker after reloading the page. When I added -webkit-perspective: 1000, there was no flicker whatsoever. -webkit-perspective: 1000; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
How to double buffer .NET controls on a form?
Here’s a more generic version of Dummy’s solution. We can use reflection to get at the protected DoubleBuffered property, and then it can be set to true. Note: You should pay your developer taxes and not use double-buffering if the user is running in a terminal services session (e.g. Remote Desktop) This helper method will … Read more
How to fix the flickering in User controls
It is not the kind of flicker that double-buffering can solve. Nor BeginUpdate or SuspendLayout. You’ve got too many controls, the BackgroundImage can make it a lot worse. It starts when the UserControl paints itself. It draws the BackgroundImage, leaving holes where the child control windows go. Each child control then gets a message to … Read more