Re: Deferred screen updates in Forms 4.5

Hello,

did you try to start your app in minimized mode (as symbol) ?

Maximize FORMS_MDI_WINDOW after the initial work is done.

If you're lucky all the screen flashing will be hidden from the user.

-Stefan.

Ken Shirey wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to cause Forms to defer screen updates until it has
> finished painting all of its windows? Here's the situation:
>
> All forms have a toolbar, one base canvas, and a stacked canvas.
>
> The FORMS_MDI_WINDOW is set to a specific size with Set_Window_Property
>
> The client window (called ROOT_WINDOW) is maximized with Set_Window_Property
>
> The canvas views are drawn (show_view, etc)
>
> On my client's machines, it takes about 1.5 seconds for this to happen, and
> they see all of the extraneous flashing and resizing as Forms faithfully
> executes each command.
>
> I tried using Get_Window_Property(FORMS_MDI_WINDOW, window_handle), and
> passing it to an ora_ffi routine. The routine passed the window handle to
> the LockWindowUpdate() function in user32.dll. Unfortunately, the window
> handle passed back from the gwp routine isn't the window handle of the MDI
> FrameWindow.
>
> I'm really stuck, and my client is getting upset. Can anyone help??
>
> Thanks a million,
> Ken Shirey
> Commercial Data Systems
> 281-243-1795
> mailto: kshirey_at_commercial-data.com
Received on Wed Oct 29 1997 - 00:00:00 CET