Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17140
Massive Screen Redraw Issues When Using Draw Functions
Last modified: 2003-09-29 14:00:09 UTC
I've been told off for submitting collective bugreports before. However, (a) I think it's a general issue of code that is shared across components (that's why I file it under framework) and (b) I've already spent a couple of hours on this anyway. I'm happy to file separate bugs for individual component and functions if you guys think it's necessary and there is a commitment to take a serious look into this. In fact, I'd definitely be happy to help out with more testing - I guess it is pretty hard to tackle screen redraw issues using automated test tools. (On Linux there are certainly more.) Ok, here goes my list of findings: Rectangles: - rectangles with sharp corners fine - rectangles with rounded corners leave traces with mouse moved around (the the more slowly the more traces) Ellipses: - create tunnel-like artefatcs wenn creating and expanding an ellipse - happens only if drawing happens to the left of the 'Ellipse' dialog window 3D Objects: - generally all objects are affected - the worst ones when drawing are: - cube - shell - half shpere Curves: - all badly affected when drawing to right of 'Curve' window apart form freeform line (filled and unfilled) Lines: - all badly affected when drwaing right of 'Lines' window - some artefacts get cleaned up when releasing the mouse button (object created), others stay I did most testing Draw but Writer has the same problem. I haven't looked into Calc or Impress but I can if people think it's necessary. Most testing was done on the following configuration: - Debian woody + some newer packages - xfree 4.2.1 - Gnome 1.4.1 - window managers sawfish 1.0.1 and metacity 2.3.89 (to double-check it's not the window manager) To get a bit of a broader view, I've done some testing under debian unstable (same xfree, though). I've tested things on debian unstable both under Gnome 2.2 and KDE 3.1 with the same results as above. I'll attach a few screenshot for illustration purposes. Again, if there is anything else testing-wise I can do that would help tackling the issue, please, let me know. Cheers Andree
Created attachment 7873 [details] 4 Screenshots to illustrate issue
TM->CGU: Seems to be more a draw-issue than a framework problem to me. Please have a look. Thanks !
Hello, thanks for the explicit description and the screenshots. This seems to be an "X or" problem of the graphic card driver. Please test another driver if the error happens there as well. If this was a "normal" error happening on every system we would get more issues about this but we do not. So I think that there is something wrong with the configuration you are using on your system. Please have a try. Thanks in advance.
<Sigh> Yep, looks like you are right. Tried this on a different PC with a Matrox card also running Debian woody and all seems well. Thanks a lot for looking into this, I guess this one can be closed. Cheers Andree
Thanks, I will close it.
Closed.