Text Flashes

[Kracker]

I've seen this happen almost randomly in both Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer and Fusion 2.5 Developer. Sometimes, when comparing values, if the action is changing something, that object will flash. For example, the current issue is checking a value, if it equals a value, it changes the text of the button. If the value is greater than the set value it changes the text to something else.

By default the value is one. If the value increases it changes text. However, I have an action to see if the value is one as when the user changes the value from greater to one back to one my program needs to change the text accordingly.

Everything is fine until the value changes. After that it almost looks like the button flashes or blinks. I've had this issue in the past with regular text as well as the button text. I say it's random because sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't do it. The condition is nothing more than comparing two general values.

[Kracker]

I've gotten it to stop by creation an addition conditional statement. I have it if the value equals to one then it sets the string to something. If the value us greater than 1 it sets the string to something else. Then, it checks to see if the string is equal to something as well as to see what the text of the button is. This prevents it from changing the text of the button if the text is already what it needs to be. This seems to have stopped the flashing.

[DavidN]

Sounds strange... could you maybe upload an example file where it happens? If it's only on Button objects and others that are drawn by Windows, it could be to do with how Windows is using your video card.

[Kracker]

I'll try and create an example in the AM. Like I had said, when I created additional criteria it seemed to fix it. I noticed it also happening with the tooltip object. Unfortunately, it seems if a button is disabled the tooltip doesn't show. I'm wanting to change the tooltip of the button when it's disabled. Sort of a way people could know it's disabled and why. The only way around was to use the tooltip object/extension.

I noticed the same thing with the tooltip extension. When two strings were compared it did the flashing real fast.