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Am Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:35:23 +0100 schrieb der Meister Bob Latham:

> In article <slrn10a61bo.372r.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>,
>    Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 2025-08-16, Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> > As for the redraw loop..
> 
>> > Can I cheat to start with? ie. rely on the clip window and redraw the
>> > entire window each time? Have that as a sort of base camp for this
>> > mountain climb.
> 
>> Yes, that's completely fine. Modern hardware won't really notice unless
>> you have a lot of lines, and you can come in to optimise things later.
> 
> To my huge surprise, I now have text scrolling in a window in an
> application I've put together. Yes, it's a bit of a hack in that I don't
> draw the individual rectangles but it's probably all I need. It did
> flicker slightly when my phantom icons had different colour backgrounds
> to the window they're sat on but it was much reduced when I set the same
> colour.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who offered their help.
> 
> I still can't quite believe I got it working..

That sounds good.

If You are interested in investing some more time into this theme You 
should give the module 'ZAPredraw' a chance. Thats - on RISC OS - the 
fastet way to plot fancy fonts and fast texts onto the screen.

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  Re: Text in a wimp window druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 09:35 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 09:54 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 10:03 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 10:45 +0100
        Re: Text in a wimp window Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2025-08-14 14:37 +0000
          Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 17:57 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 16:12 +0100
  Re: Text in a wimp window Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2025-08-14 21:19 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-15 16:39 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-08-15 20:06 +0100
        Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-16 16:10 +0100
          Re: Text in a wimp window Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-08-18 11:50 +0100
            Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-18 12:58 +0100
            Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-20 18:35 +0100
              Re: Text in a wimp window Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2025-08-21 13:01 +0000
              Re: Text in a wimp window Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 00:31 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-08-17 18:01 +0200

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