I am seeing a strange visual effect under the new version of OI when using tabbed dialogs.

If I click on a tab it looks like the controls on the new tab are displayed prior to removing the controls on the prior tab. It's not always that obvious and it's worse on forms with lots of controls. It's not wrong when the new tab is finished displaying but the effect of having all the controls visible at once looks distracting.

Anyone else seen this? Any cures?

Jim,

This is something that was recently noticed and is currently under investigation. I will keep you posted on any developments.

Thank you,

Sean

OK, if you have anything that needs testing let me know.

Is it likely to be fixed soon (I don't want my users to see this), or should I pursue other solutions?

Jim,

Is this directly related to the Tab control? What happens if you remove the tab control and simply use the form's vertical scroll bar to switch between pages? Does this only happen in XP theme or do you see it in Windows Standard as well? If you see this in XP theme, what happens if you disable the manifest file?

I haven't seen this (yet) myself but my theory is that while running in XP theme, the Tab control is attempting to redraw the new controls before the old controls have been removed. Perhaps the REDRAW property can be used to eliminate the undesireable effect.

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]] Is this directly related to the Tab control? What happens if you remove the tab control and simply use the form's vertical scroll bar to switch between pages? ]Does this only happen in XP theme or do you see it in Windows Standard as well? ] If you see this in XP theme, what happens if you disable the manifest file? ] the Tab control is attempting to redraw the new controls before the old controls have been removed. ] Perhaps the REDRAW property can be used to eliminate the undesirable effect. «

Let me play around with this.

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