Re: How to avoid BLINKING when creating a CDialog at background?

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:33:55 -0700
Message-ID:
<5490833E-8CC3-4DCA-ACE0-6D438D32FE08@microsoft.com>
Seems to be the running theme. :o)

Tom

"Goran" <goran.pusic@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:e7bf145c-4253-483a-b1e4-fa446164dd5d@e18g2000vbe.googlegroups.com...
On Oct 21, 7:54 am, Chris <Ch...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I have looked at all process and indeed it is calling the
UpdateRect function so it always REPAINT the window.

Is there any other way to fix this?


Well, then, I'd say it's clear: don't call UpdateRect if there's
nothing to update ;-). You could also try SetRedraw function. If there
is something to update, then try changing the painting routine for the
better so that it doesn't blink.

At a second glance, you seem to have a long-running process, in the
UI, that is also updating the UI. That's seldom good. It's normally
better to do your calculations in a worker thread and inform the UI,
by posting messages to it, about any updates it should do. I know it's
a big change to your current code, and it seems you are already in
over your head, but perhaps that could help you in the future...

Goran.

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