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[Daniel Passwater via DotNetMonster.com]

I've never written anything in vb before, but I've been asked to update some vb code. The requirements are that a banner show at all times. The banner works well with most screen savers. However, the openGL, or directDraw screen savers seem to override it. I set the refresh to .001 second, but this requires too much processor. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Suggestions and/or insights are greatly appreciated.
Daniel

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Daniel,

This seems exactly for the windows.forms.timer
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../vbcon/html/vbconinitializingtimercontrol.asp

The way you do it now uses to much processor time in my opinion.

I hope this helps?

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I've never written anything in vb before, but I've been asked to update
some vb code. The requirements are that a banner show at all times. The
banner works well with most screen savers. However, the openGL, or
directDraw screen savers seem to override it. I set the refresh to .001
second, but this requires too much processor.

OpenGL and DirectDraw draw into the graphics memory directly instead of
drawing onto a device context. What you can try to do is using
DirectX/DirectDraw yourself to draw the banner.

 

[Daniel Passwater via DotNetMonster.com]

I realize that I wasn't very clear. When I say refresh, I actually mean that I use a timer to reassert the form. I set the timer to 1. This is as low as it will go, and it still flickers... not to mention the drag on the processor.

 

[Daniel Passwater via DotNetMonster.com]

That's kind of the direction I've that headed, but the learning curve seems pretty drastic. Can I incorporate DirectDraw into the vb? Could you suggest a good tutorial? I'm pretty green at all of this.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Daniel,

I have no answer, however you made me curious, for what specimen are you
making this, as far as I know can a human eye not see that refresh rate you
are using. I thought that most home made movies use a refresh rate of 25
pictures a second.

Cor