Flickering in reports

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Mon Jan 30 14:03:35 EST 2017


Op zaterdag 28 januari 2017 21:27:50 CET schreef Colin Law:
> On 28 January 2017 at 17:57, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> 
wrote:
> > 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.
> I have seen this sort of problem on another app where the problem was
> to do with whether a scroll bar was required or not. The s/w was
> deciding that a scroll bar was necessary and then after adding the bar
> decided that it was not necessary, or something like that anyway.
> I don't know whether this is the situation here but just suggesting it
> in case it helps.

This is exactly what I suspect to be the issue as well. Robert Fewell is 
looking into it it seems.

Regards,

Geert


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