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YellowShadow

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« on: March 31, 2007, 10:55:05 PM »
Just wanted to let you guys know that in Vista the Ogre Render Screen flickers on both renderers. Is there a fix for this or what?
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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2007, 09:48:34 AM »
I haven't had the chance to test with Vista. It always flickers? Or only when you are rotating/moving things? If you have the time, patches are welcome. It wil likely be some time before I get a Vista machine to play around with.

The only thing that strikes me as a possible cause, is the .Net bitmap that gets rendered over the viewport for selection, however I beleive that only comes in play when you are draggin the mouse :/
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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2007, 09:51:22 AM »
I've heard of some people having trouble with their video cards/drivers. What card and driver do you have?
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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2007, 10:36:47 AM »
@pjcast

It flickers all the time.

@mystercoder

I have an ATI Radeon X1300+.'

Which file has the Ogre Render window in it?
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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2007, 06:37:26 PM »
The OgrePane class and OgreView classes deal with rendering the windows. The OgrePane class contains all the OgreView classes which actually handle the rendering.
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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2007, 06:40:37 PM »
Quote from: "pjcast"
The OgrePane class and OgreView classes deal with rendering the windows. The OgrePane class contains all the OgreView classes which actually handle the rendering.


Thanks,
I'll try to fix this when I have time.
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« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2007, 08:30:26 PM »
pjcast: Is there a .cs file that renders that screen? If so which one?

Nevermind I found it.
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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2007, 09:07:52 PM »
I downloaded the latest SVN and ran it. It doesn't flicker anymore. Don't know what I have done though. Did someone already fix this or what?
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« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2007, 09:21:01 PM »
hmm, I havn't changed anything in a while. You can run svn log to see when the last changes were. Maybe it's a transient problem.
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« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2007, 09:22:24 PM »
One thing though. Only debug version runs. Release crashes and it gives me that VisualOgre Studio has caused an error and needs to close.

How would I check the SVN Log?
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« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2007, 11:59:40 AM »
Using tortoise svn, you can easily do show log. I'm not sure about cmd line.

Anyway, about release mode crashing, it is because the Ogre Studio project is designed to operate in two modes, one is debug, and the other is release installed. Debug should be fast enough all the time, since the Ogre binaries are always in release mode, and the C# code does not do anything very intensive. However, for testing release mode - the best way is the build the installer, and install it ;-)

Though, if you are running Visual Studio express, and don't have the option to build the installer, you can simply copy the media files, from the debug location to the release location. And any other missing files (the installer gathers everything needed and installs it to the program files) - both debug & installed versions share the same config files located at: C:\documents & settings\user\local settings\app settings\VisualOgreStudio- if I recall correctly. Or something similar to that.
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