Re: flashing symptoms

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Daniel Weaver wrote:

> At 03:47 PM 11/3/00 -0330, Neil Zanella wrote:
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am using subwindows and subwindows of subwindows. When I refresh one
> >bottom level subwindow and then anotherone the screen flashes a lot.
> 
> What kind of terminal are you using?  Terminals that have magic cookies
> flash a lot.  There is not much that you can do about it.

He's complaining afaik about unnecessary repainting (which can be
alleviated by tinkering with wnoutrefresh and doupdate -- but for
practical purposes perhaps the panel library does this better since
that's one of the things it's designed to do).

as for the "blue" - no idea, unless the application is temporarily
painting in that color.  I'd test that by capturing the screen output
with 'script' and analyzing the typescript file.

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