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

["Mark Melvin" <mark.melvin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:07:30 -0400, Dave Wegener  
> <wegener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > "Robert B" <oh1226@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:fsed4g$nk6$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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!
> > 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.
>
> I know exactly what he means and I have not found a reason for it yet.   
> I filed a bug here:
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=219187
>
> It was suggested it could be due to "A custom draw Tree with lots of  
> visible items" not being able to redraw itself quickly enough, but I saw  
> it with no tree view at all - just dragging a notepad window over an  
> Eclipse showing empty views in fact (see the screenshot in the bug).

While I was able to restrain myself from posting yet another response to  
Robert in terms of his incessant complaining without filing a bug, I could  
not restrain myself from trying to reproduce my particular issue on  
3.4M6.  I still see the issue, and I have updated my bug with a little  
more details on my hardware setup here:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=219187

Mark.