[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Screen patches, still occuring?

["Dave Wegener" <wegener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert B" <oh1226@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Unpatched means that not-repainted clipping rectangles.
> I had lots of them in the past. Most common ones are
> small fellows, say, 20x10 pixels, or vertical or horizontal
> lines, or areas not repainted, retaining previous images.
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> On Eclipse SDK, open lots of elements for "Package explore"
> make both scrollbars appear. Then pull down the SDK
> so the right-bottom rectangle area (where two scrollbars
> meet) goes below Windows task bar. Try up and down. You will
> see the area get unpatched images!
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Following your steps, I don't see any "unpatched images".  The windows
repaint corectly.  I'm running Eclipse 3.3.2 on Windows 2000 Pentium 4 3ghz
with 1GB of RAM.

> This could be a related problem. The problem I seen normally
> happens in the spacing area where no components are
> drawn. For example, margin areas in formlayout, etc.
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> "Eric Rizzo" <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Robert B wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> When I tested SWT-written programs about 15 months ago
> >> on single CPU 1.6GHz Windows machine with SWT 3.2 installed,
> >> I had lots of unpatched screen patches. This was happening especially
> >> when I use several windows and shuttle around them.
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> >> Now I use dual process of the same speed with SWT 3.3.
> >> The interface is now Windows XP. In addition, most unpatched
> >> screen patches are gone. Now it happens very seldom!
> >> But does happen.
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> > I don't know about anyone else, but I don't know what you mean by
> > "unpatched screen patches." Can you explain in more detail, maybe even
> > provide a screen-shot?
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> > Eric
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