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Bug 253842 - Message windows flicker
Message windows flicker
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
1.5.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-04 02:53 UTC by Nuno Ferreira
Modified: 2013-09-10 14:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Nuno Ferreira 2004-02-04 02:53:22 UTC 
When oppening a message, sometimes the message "flickers", it appears to be
drawn on the window, erased then drawn again.
Comment 1 Rodney Dawes 2004-02-06 18:02:07 UTC 
Adding UI keyword. I think this may have been inadvertently fixed
yesterday. Will test.
Comment 2 Rodney Dawes 2004-02-10 19:58:58 UTC 
This looks fixed to me.
Comment 3 Nuno Ferreira 2004-02-12 20:51:21 UTC 
Well, it's not.
Also, I think it happens more often on large folders.
I have a folder with all the linux-kernel messages since December and
opening a message on that folder you can clearly see the message being
drawn twice, every time.
Also, on a message that doesn't flicker I get the following message on
the console:
(evolution-1.5:5348): camel-CRITICAL **: file camel-folder.c: line 912
(camel_folder_get_message_info): assertion `uid != NULL' failed

On a message that flickers the message appears twice, so something is
surely happening twice.
Comment 4 Jeffrey Stedfast 2004-02-18 19:33:37 UTC 
"opening a message" - what does this mean? does this only happen when
viewing a message in its own window? or in the preview pane? or both?
or what?
Comment 5 Nuno Ferreira 2004-02-18 23:37:29 UTC 
Sorry if I wasn't clear, english is not my primary language.
It only happens when viewing a message in its own window, in the
preview it doesn't happen
Comment 6 Jeffrey Stedfast 2004-02-23 20:03:24 UTC 
I only get one warning. anyways, this appears to be fixed in CVS
(other than the warning)
Comment 7 Nuno Ferreira 2004-03-03 09:58:56 UTC 
Well, I still see this. Which folder type are you using?
I made a fresh install from CVS and I'm still seeing this with a mbox
folder with 14000 messages. The warning message no longer appears.
Comment 8 Not Zed 2004-03-11 05:27:08 UTC 
i see it, on big folders only yes.

its probably a race with the emfolderview remember uid code and the
messagebrowser set uid code.
Comment 9 Jeffrey Stedfast 2004-04-30 15:02:25 UTC 
fwiw, I'm now seeing this also. and yea, it is annoying.
Comment 10 Not Zed 2004-05-17 05:30:41 UTC 
i fixed this a couple of weeks ago but forgot to reference the bug