Bug #5042 Administrator flickers too much when resizing windows

• Submitted: 13 Aug 2004 23:13
• Modified: 7 Oct 2005 12:37
• Reporter: Jorge del Conde
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Administrator
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 1.0.9
• OS: Windows (WinXP)
• Assigned to: Mike Lischke
• CPU Architecture: Any

[13 Aug 2004 23:13] Jorge del Conde

Description:
Administrator flickers way too much when resizing windows.

How to repeat:
Try to resize any resizable window in Administrator

Suggested fix:
Optimize the painting routine

[17 Aug 2004 12:21] Andreas Götz

Another weirdness is that in the WinXP taskswitcher (with the power toys 'visual' taskswitch) installed, both administrator and query browser appeas as two windows instead of one...

[17 Aug 2004 16:13] Jorge del Conde

Mike, I can confirm the above comment by Andreas Götz.

Administrator & Query Browser show 2 icons in the taskswitcher - at least when PowerTools TaskSwitch is installed.

[31 Oct 2004 23:08] Mathieu D.

Could be reproducted on Windows XP SP2 with Administrator 1.0.13.

[2 Aug 2005 17:31] James Hood

Reproduced with Windows XP SP2 with MySQL Administrator 1.1.1-rc

[7 Oct 2005 12:37] Mike Lischke

Unfortunately, we can't do much about it. A few little optimizations were possible but the general problem still remains. The entire layout is based on certain controls like tab controls, which have their own issues with flickering, particularly when used on Windows XP (because of the theming with gradients). To solve this we need a new layout structure of the UI, which is beyond what we will do with this version. This issue will be considered in the next major version of MA (i.e. 2.0).