How to do flickerfree resizing of gadgets?

[mestnyi]

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 line 239   UpdateWindow_(hWnd)  

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[VB6_to_PBx]

line 239 UpdateWindow_(hWnd)

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         ; 3rd Step: Redraw Background only on invalid area (i.e. excluding the 'good' gadgets) and refresh Gadgets
         
         BeginPaint_(hWnd, ps.PAINTSTRUCT)
         EndPaint_(hWnd, ps.PAINTSTRUCT)
         RedrawWindow_(hWnd,#Null,#Null,#RDW_INVALIDATE);
         UpdateWindow_(hWnd)
      EndIf;
   EndIf     ;

thanks mestnyi for that code addition ,

that stopped all flickering on my Win7 Computer w/PB541LTS 32-bit version

[Andre]

The big advantage of using XML-Dialogs is, that you don't have to care about the resizing.
I could imagine, how long it took you, to get the resize of your example right.
With XML-Dialogs you just have to set it up right, and anything else is magic.

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As long as there is no good XML-Dialog Designer available (even mine is far away from being finished) I use a Wrapper to create the XML-Strings.
This makes it much easier to create a XML-Code with correct Syntax and the code looks much cleaner as well.
The Wrapper still doesn't wrap all Dialog-Elements, but it worked quite well while building a copy of your Example.
(The only Gadget which I had to create 'manually' was the ListIconGadget (see AddXML() in Line 148).)
[LINK] to download the wrapper.

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Maybe XML-Dialogs will be of some interest for you in the future.

I think the Wrapper makes it really a lot easier to build error-free + well-formatted XML Dialog descriptions for your GUI declarations. As soon more people will find out the advantages, and maybe use your Wrapper (many thanks for this! ), the use of Dialogs will increase a lot.

There are still some things to improve, and I'm hoping too, that Fred will take care of them!

[Michael Vogel]

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 line 239   UpdateWindow_(hWnd)  

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Hm, when adding this line, the background around the frame gadget text is drawn in a little bit lighter color than the standard background (Windows 8.1).

[PureLust]

@Purelust : that is a pretty nifty utility there for creating XML dialogs. Very nice.

Little Update on that:

In the meantime the Wrapper has been almost finished and was renamed to 'DynamicDialogs'.
It supports any Dialog-Gadget now and offers several syntax-variations (there is a 'plain'-, 'suffixed'-, 'suffixed_IDonly'- and a 'suffixed_NameOnly'-Version) to support various likings or needs.
In combination with the also included "indentation injector' you could easily get a correctly layoutet code in your IDE as well.
Further it supports Fonts and Images (which are not handled by PBs native Dialog-Library so far).

Right now I have only published it at the german forum, but if you don't mind you are welcome to take a look and download it THERE.
(If you have problems understanding the german thread, just have a look at the included samples. Most of them are commented in (terrible) english.)

[PureLust]

Hi Michael,

I've just released my Module 'DeFlicker'.
Even though you already have a working deflicker-solution for your project now, 'DeFlicker' will provide you a more flexible way to deflicker your gorgeous GUI.
Maybe have a look at it and leave me a comment it you replace my previous Solution with 'DeFlicker'.

Thanks and Greetz,
PureLust.