Can you name any Microsoft applications that do this?Originally Posted by Huehnerschaender
Can you name any Microsoft applications that do this?
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IEif you move the window while a page is loading the logo will still be updated, same goes for the inpage animations.
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Yes as i said earlier Windows Media Player continues to play video while being dragged as do most other non-Microsoft players. Don't know how they manage itCan you name any Microsoft applications that do this?
Thanks. I'm not familiar with threaded apps, so if you do get it to work could you please post the code for the setup/render loop
Easy. You never grab the window frame, but a panel within the frame (an imitation window frame if you will) that permits a drag while rendering.Yes as i said earlier Windows Media Player continues to play video while being dragged as do most other non-Microsoft players. Don't know how they manage it
Otherwise, if you use a standard window all I can say is "Tough luck", because it's a Microsoft-ism. You'll have to ask them why they did it that way.
Windows Media Player and most of the players don't render using the stander GUI/Desktop overlay and they are not even in charge of the decoding/rendering.. so its not really a good comparison.
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Done some testing and when you drag a window (on mouse move) the app will freeze, its much more noticeable if you press (and not release) the X of the window.
If you play an MP3 in Windows Media Player It will also stop the animation but not the sound, if you play a video file its again not controlled in the same thread + overlay.
I guess the only way to fully bypass it is by creating your own GUI (i.e Winamp, QuickTime Player), am I wrong?
EDIT: OOPSops: I does work, I uploaded a Threaded demo to:
www.global-rd.com/ariel/freeze.zip
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I was messing around with one of the JEDI-SDL timer demos yesterday, and I think moving the animation to a secondary thread may work. Again it would need to be tested. But I have to ask, is it such a bad thing to have the animation stop when you are dragging the Window?
It should work, as even in my above demo I made it work with TImage.
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Hi Tanffn
Your demo does not work for me. It counts up at the most to 13 or so and then image stops being drawn to. This occurs even if I don't move the mouse or anything.
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What can I say czar.. it works fine here, tested it several times until I gave up (300-600).
How many times did you try? You can always look at the code as its very straight forward.
I'm using XP Pro sp2, whats your spec?
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