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[prod]

There's an issue when switching to Display View where the Windows desktop is displayed for a split second. It's a quite distracting, especially when using Jump on Play -> Display View in Theatre View. It would be a lot nicer if Theatre View could just seamlessly switch to Display View without this behaviour.

[Griff]

I see this problem in Vista

but not in XP.


Thanks

[Matt]

There's an issue when switching to Display View where the Windows desktop is displayed for a split second. It's a quite distracting, especially when using Jump on Play -> Display View in Theatre View. It would be a lot nicer if Theatre View could just seamlessly switch to Display View without this behaviour.

I consider this a Vista bug.

Windows renders the desktop without allowing the window over the top of the desktop to respond to a WM_PAINT problem.

[prod]

Fair enough, thanks for the response. I'm sure eventually I'll learn to ignore it.

[raym]

I consider this a Vista bug.

Windows renders the desktop without allowing the window over the top of the desktop to respond to a WM_PAINT problem.

From memory, this problem goes away if you disable Aero... but then this introduces problems in video picture quality. I was also seeing other related display corruption with the OSD etc when toggling b/w views. It was all driving me mad. All Vista offered me was a headache and I'm now back to trusty old XP.

[Matt]

We've tried hard to fix this issue on Vista.

However, sometimes Vista draws stuff from Windows behind the current window or a window that's long gone.  It sends no messages to us, so we can't control it.

We couldn't find any new Vista-specific APIs that would let us control the behavior either.

And it looks like SP1 didn't do anything to address it.

As a simple example, is you resize a window and then draw something new to it, Vista draws the old image when you change the size without letting you draw the "something new" to it first.  Of course XP doesn't do this.

[prod]

I've found a half-decent workaround for this issue!

If initially you go to Theatre View directly from Display View, on switching a blank Display View is displayed momentarily, which isn't half as distracting.