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Is a flashing effect displeasing to the eye. Flicker in software is caused by a computer program's failure to consistently maintain its graphical state.

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How to fix the flickering in User controls

In my application i am constantly moving from one control to another. I have created no. of user controls, but during navigation my controls gets flicker. it takes 1 or 2 sec to update. I tried to set…
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iPhone WebKit CSS animations cause flicker

This is the iphone site: http://www.thevisionairegroup.com/projects/accessorizer/site/ After you click "play now" you'll get to a game. The guns will scroll in. You can scroll the purse and accessories up and down. You can see that when you let go…
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Android VideoView black screen

I have been looking for a way to get rid of the nasty black initial screen on a VideoView before the start() method is run. I have tried with background image on the widget but it doesn't work as expected at all. I have also tried putting an image…
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How to double buffer .NET controls on a form?

How can I set the protected DoubleBuffered property of the controls on a form that are suffering from flicker?
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c# flickering Listview on update

I have a list view that is periodically updated (every 60 seconds). It was anoying to me that i would get a flicker every time it up dated. The method being used was to clear all the items and then recreate them. I decided to instead of clearing the…
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Fixed attachment background image flicker/disappear in chrome when coupled with a css transform

I am currently doing a parallax website theme. The background images need to be attached as fixed for certain 'div's and 'section's to avoid jquery indulging in everything. The problem was the background images of the tags below any animated item…
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How do I force windows NOT to redraw anything in my dialog when the user is resizing my dialog?

When the user grabs a corner of a resizable window, and then moves it, windows first moves the contents of the window around, then issues a WM_SIZE to the window being resized. Thus, in a dialog where I want to control the movement of various child…
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How can a Swing JWindow be resized without flickering?

I am trying to make a custom UI based on a JWindow for the purpose of selecting an area of the screen to be shared. I have extended JWindow and added code to make it resizable and to 'cut out' the centre of the window using…
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TLabel and TGroupbox Captions Flicker on Resize

So, I have an application that loads different plugins and creates a new tab on a TPageControl for each one. Each DLL has a TForm associated with it. The forms are created with their parent hWnd as the new TTabSheet. Since the TTabSheets aren't a…
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Flickering in a Windows Forms app

I have an app that has a ton of controls on it. And it has a massive amount of flicker, particularly on startup. I applied this fix to it. protected override CreateParams CreateParams { get { CreateParams cp =…
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How can I make my form resize more smoothly?

When resizing a form with many controls, the form looks bad because of flickering. What are some tips to have a smoother form resizing?
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How to prevent a Windows Forms TextBox from flickering on resize?

There are plenty of articles addressing flicker in Windows Forms. The majority recommend setting DoubleBuffered = true or setting a bunch of ControlStyle flags. However, none of these help reduce a TextBox flickering. Here are a couple of related…
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Stopping TextBox flicker during update

My WinForms application has a TextBox that I'm using as a log file. I'm appending text without the form flickering using TextBox.AppendText(string);, however when I try to purge old text (as the control's .Text property reaches the .MaxLength…
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During FlowLayoutPanel scrolling, background distorts + flickers

I have a windows form application that has a background. Within it, I have a flowlayoutpanel with a transparent background. When I scroll, the following happens: I also see some flickering. I've tried all the doublebuffered business, and it…
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The underlying magic of -webkit-backface-visibility

I'd like to know why webkit-backface-visibility is like that all-purpose aspirin that solves or makes worse all kinds of heterogeneous problems, mostly related to artifacts and flickering. I have read and understand what really backface-visibility…
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