RE: CListCtrl Flickers on Vista

From:
=?Utf-8?B?U2lkZHU=?= <Siddu@discussions.microsoft.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Mon, 4 May 2009 07:33:01 -0700
Message-ID:
<772EF6C2-EFAC-444F-9A75-0BEEA60927C0@microsoft.com>
Below is the code which closely resembles what I am trying to do -

CListCtrl m_list;
....
....
bool break = false;
vector<vector<CString>> list_vector;
vector<CString> item;
while(!break)
{
    if( /*cursor moved*/ )
    {
        for(int i = 0; i< NoOfRows; i++)
        {
            item.push_back("Data1");
            item.push_back("Data2");
            item.push_back("Data3");
            item.push_back("Data4");
            item.push_back("Data5");
            item.push_back("Data6");
            list_vector.push_back(item);
        }

        std::sort( list_vector.begin(), list_vector.end(), SortList)
        vector<vector<CString>>::iterator listItr;

        m_list.SetRedraw(false);
        for( listItr = list_vector.begin(); listItr != list_vector.end();
++listItr )
        {
            //code to insert vector items in list
        }
        m_list.SetRedraw(true);
    }
....
....
if(/*some condtition*/)
    break = true;
}

"Siddu" wrote:

Hi,
My application uses a dialog with CListCtrl in report view, this list
control gets updated heavily and frequently. To stop flickering during
update, I have used SetRedraw(FALSE) before the update operation, like-

This trick is working fine with Win XP, but its unable to stop flickering on
Vista.
I have also tried LockWindowUpdate(), but the problem remains.

Is there any known issue with using CListCtrl on Vista?
What else could be tried to stop Flickering?

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