Flicker issue - Xtreme Visual Basic Talk

10-16-2005, 03:26 AM

ben_b

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Flicker issue

This is a fairly hard issue that I’ve been working on, on and off all day today and I finally giving in and posting here about it. The code I’m working with is:

Code:

Private Sub cmdBack_Click()
    'Show frmMaintenance
    frmMaintenance.Show

    'Set frmMaintenance window position so they're the same when you press back
    Dim intTop As Integer, intLeft As Integer
    
    ''Get current form window position
    intTop = Me.Top
    intLeft = Me.Left
    
    ''Set frmMaintenance window position
    frmMaintenance.Top = intTop
    frmMaintenance.Left = intLeft
    
    'Close current form
    Unload Me
End Sub

As you can see what this code is supposed to do is set the form it’s going back too’s position to the same as the current forms window position but the problem is if the form has been moved from its start up position, when I push the back button it flickers while it’s moving the form. Does anyone know of a way to prevent the flicker and or set the window position before it actually switches to it?

10-16-2005, 03:38 AM

vbfan

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Try to set AutoRedraw to true of the Form. And ben please don't start for every question you have a new thread( I know you're surely new to vb and you want to discover as many as possible). Please try at first a search and see if you get results, and if they help you. If they don't help you then you can/should start a new thread. Some Questions are really FAQ and you'll find dozens of answers.

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10-16-2005, 03:47 AM

ben_b

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I knew I'd get a little heat over posting all my questions at once but I've been building them up over the last week or so and I decided for tracking purposes it'd be best if I posted seperate threads rather than one thread. All of these questions I've searched for answers exstensivly throughout the internet but couldn't find any sollutions.

Anyways thanks for the help I'll try the AutoRedraw.

10-16-2005, 03:50 AM

vbfan

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I didn't mean you should create only one big collection thread with all your Questions in it, rather that you should do a search before opening a new thread. And in this forum you find many things and also for your questions, so next time try a search here and be surprised what you can find here!
Much luck with your programming

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10-16-2005, 03:54 AM

ben_b

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Also the AutoRedraw didn't work. The only way I can seem to prevent the flicker is if I set the form StartUpPosition to Manual but I'm having troulbe with that. Unless I can get it to change the StartUpPosition once it's running (which I was having trouble with) I can't do it that way because I need the form to first load centered then be manual to allow the changes to occur. Hopefully that made sense.