Re: Rolling display

On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, Hubert Figuière wrote:

> No. The patch you mention is bug 13815. And bug 13815 is about a black
> document window.
>
> What you are seeing is bug 13791
> https://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13791 which is NOT fixed.

Hub,

   Well, this helps, at least in knowing the patch file is wrong.

> I *believe* the proper fix is to remove any drawing code from GR_Caret
> (done out of the actually drawing loop) and have it all done in the
> document redraw. Just need to find some time to do it as it is not
> trivial.
>
> I'd happily review a patch is someone has time to cook one.

   I certainly don't know enough to try to fix the problem. I just removed LO
in favor of abiword and gnumeric (since the writer and spreadsheet are all I
used in LO) so I guess I'll live with this rolling flickering until it's
fixed.

   Thanks very much for the quick, informative response.

Regards,

Rich