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Jittery, lagging movement of some VFP windows in Win7
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27/10/2010 02:14:47
 
 
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27/10/2010 00:44:32
Neil Mc Donald
Cencom Systems P/L
The Sun, Australia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 7
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01487054
Message ID:
01487070
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74
>In Control Panel/System what is your Windows Experience Score, what is the Graphics Score.
>>John,
>>
>>Basically, this is what is happening. Dockable windows like the Project Manager, Command, Data Session and Properties page exhibit this jittery lagging movement when it is set to Dockable, AND Aero Effects is turned on. FWIW, our machines here have 4Gb of RAM and have Core 2 and up processors.
>>
>>Nobody else got this behavior?
>>
>>Dennis

I get the same behaviour, just didn't notice it until now. When being moved around, the thick outline of the Command Window refreshes smoothly but at only about 3 or 4 times per second, it's like remote control using an old version of pcAnyWhere over a dialup link. Dragging the Command Window around consumes about a third of one i5-750 core.

My Windows Experience scores (Win7 Ultimate 64 bit, 8GB RAM):

Processor: 7.3
RAM: 7.7
Graphics: 6.9
Gaming Graphics: 6.9
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

I wonder if the Command Window is part of the VFP UI/IDE that's written in VFP, and if so, if the source is available so we can tweak it.

BTW in Performance Information and Tools...Adjust Visual Effects, the only setting that appears to have any effect is the very last one, "Use visual styles on windows and buttons" - I believe that corresponds to turning themes on in XP and 2K3.
Regards. Al

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