September 30, 200916 yr Hello peoples Having a bit of a problem trying to workout why i am getting a strange panel flickering/reloading problem. The problem occurs when i resize a 2d panel doesn't matter if its in the 2D or 3D cockpit and also happens when i click on some switches. The Sim flashes and i am sometimes able to see either a black screen the desktop for a moment then the sim resumes as normal. its a bit hard to explain so i made a vid. sorry for the crappy quality but i had to use my digital camera as fraps was not able to record everything that was happening on the screen.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er81fUG79uMi have found that if i remove all of the gauges from the panel config i don't have the problem i have it narrowed down to a couple of suspects but have no idea what in them might cause this problem. i am using a number of panel services to control 3D animations from 2D gauges egPANEL_SERVICE_PRE_INITIALIZE:PANEL_SERVICE_CONNECT_TO_WINDOW:PANEL_SERVICE_PRE_UPDATE:PANEL_SERVICE_DISCONNECT:i have a few ideas of what i can try next but i was wondering if anyone has come across the problem and any help narrowing down the problem would be much appreciated.By the way i cant get this to happen with any of the other default or addon aircraft i haveAny help would be much appreciated CheersPaul Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.
October 19, 200916 yr Author Hey o peoples For anyone who might be interested i have finally found a solution to this problem. it seems that a few of the offending switches on the panel were overlapping each other and or seemed to be too close to each other. after doing some prodding and pushing i have it all working again now YYYAAAA cheers Paul Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.
October 19, 200916 yr Commercial Member I've frequently run into that problem but for some reason thought that it didn't apply here because I'd not seen quite that much picture corruption myself. Apart from moving/resizing, another successful method of dealing with this is to find which parts are overlapping and set that part of the bitmap to transparent.-Dai
October 20, 200916 yr Author Thanks Dai i will try your solutions but i probably will just merge a whole bunch of gauges into one and solve the problem once and for all should have done it to begin with but was just lazy :)thanks againPaul Pilots track their lives by the number of hours in the air, as if any other kind of time isn't worth noting.
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