While I haven't seen the demo in action, you shouldn't get
a flashing effect due to the window buffering on OSX.
Once you flush the window port it should be pretty smooth.

I haven't seen this technique used in some time but pre-carbon
I've seen some unpleasant user interfaces (flashing) that had 
to be fixed by drawing controls into a gworld and then the
window.  The method was smooth but could be memory expensive.


W.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Stevens [mailto:brilor@...] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:59 PM
To: futurebasic@...
Subject: Re: [FB] Scrolling a window full of buttons and edit fields


On Apr 4, 2006, at 6:30 PM, SVANVOORST@... wrote:

Nice demo Steve. Forms are a difficult topic and I understand the  
advantages with scrolling versus some other methods such as  
databrowsers or, as you mentioned, tabbed panes. My experience  
(several years ago) with scrolling edit fields has been negative  
since they tend to flash (translates into unprofessional in the mind  
of the user using the form)  during the move when the user grabs the  
scroll bar and moves it from bottom to top (or vice-versa). Maybe  
someone will tackle the scrollView possibility mentioned by Bernie.

[snip]

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