Irritating blinking of label caption when updated. 1

[NarlyMarly]

Maybe it's an 'XP' thing - but my simple 'Big Clock' program that is nothing but a label (with big font) and a timer (1 sec) on a form is updating the time shown in the label's caption with an extremely irritating 'blanking' just before displaying the new caption. (It makes me want to blink.) Anyone know 'what's with that'?

 

[Andrzejek]

Show us some code and maybe placing [tt]Me.Refresh[/tt] or [tt]lblMyTimeLabel.Refresh[/tt] at specific location of your code will eliminate the problem.....

Have fun.

---- Andy

 

[vb5prgrmr]

Remove the label, use a picture box or even the form itself, print to the picture box...

[tt]
Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
Timer1.Interval = 1000
Timer1.Enabled = True
Picture1.AutoRedraw = True
Picture1.Appearance = 0
Picture1.BackColor = vbButtonFace
Picture1.FontSize = 30
Picture1.FontBold = True
Picture1.ForeColor = vbRed
Picture1.FontName = "Courier New"
Picture1.Move 0, 0, Me.ScaleWidth, Me.ScaleHeight
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Picture1.Cls
Picture1.CurrentX = 100
Picture1.CurrentY = 100
Picture1.Print Format(Time, "hh:mm:ss")
End Sub
[/tt]



Good Luck

 

[AndyGroom]

Maybe you could also use LockWindowUpdate?

- Andy
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[vb5prgrmr]

LockWindowUpdate needs a hWnd and labels don't expose a hWnd so one would have to lock the entire form, which may not be desirable...



Good Luck

 

[NarlyMarly]

Thank You vb5prgrmr! I didn't have much hope for the Label object (having tried all the dis/enable-refresh things already)- but I had to ask. I'm now reviewing all the other objects with '.print' properties to see what I've been missing. Thanks again - I was hoping the answer wasn't going to be a 'try this api call' thing!