Flickering in reports

[Geert Janssens]

Op dinsdag 17 januari 2017 16:04:30 CET schreef Edward Doolittle:
> Thank you so much for trying this out, Greg. It looks like we might have to
> gather more data before the problem can be diagnosed sensibly. I'll see if
> I can trigger the problem with a multicolumn report.
> 
> On 16 January 2017 at 21:46, Greg Feneis <mfeneis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (Win 7-64, 2.6.15)
> > 
> > No flickering for whatever the default width is.  Also tried the width
> > Edward mentioned.  Since that didn't take up the full width of my screen,
> > I
> > tried a larger width value to make it go across the entire screen.  Still
> > no flickering.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Greg Feneis
> > 
> >  <http://www.linkedin.com/in/electromechanical>
> > 

Hi,

I didn't see any flickering until I tested a new zoom option I was 
implementing. While playing with this option, I also got the flickering at 
some point. I could always make it stop by resizing the gnucash window. I 
sometimes had to keep dragging the window border up/down/left/right for a 
second or two and then the report stabilizes. Perhaps this workaround helps 
others too.

In any case, this is definitely a bug so I have created a bug report [1] for 
it.

Lastly, I don't think it's a hardware related bug, although it may be more 
visible on certain hardware. I rather think this behavior is a side-effect of 
compatibility code we added for a future feature where charts can be sized 
based on percentages of the window size. Clearly this should be handled more 
properly. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for bringing this up.

Regards,

Geert

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777875