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I have been unable to recreate this issue I'm afraid, however I have resolved it (meaning I fixed my particular script) and I assure you I'm not imagining it.

The global Variables I have in my Main.au3

;Couple of Globals
Global $hControlFile

There were 3 of them in my working script, which relate only to functions in Main.au3

If I move them to Globals.au3 with the rest of them (#include "Globals.au3") The script acts as I expect, the Control.tx being created and written to normally.

If I put them back the problem resurfaces.

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I'm getting some serious mouse flickering on input controls on Win8 Pro x64. Moving the mouse over the input control flickers between the carat and the standard pointer. The issue can be seen in the GUICtrlCreateInput help file example. Can anyone confirm?

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wraithdu,

This has been reported at least once before . It seems to be very machine dependent - I have never seen it and the example works fine for me.

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What OS did you test on? I've only seen it on Win8. I'll have to check at home as well. I don't use anything regularly that has those input controls at home, just here at work, so I'll check out the example. But I also confirmed it happens on x86 and on 3.3.8.1 x86/64.

Any testing / debugging you can think of, let me know.

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wraithdu,

I have tested on Vista x32 and XP - and I have never seen the problem with any version since I started using AutoIt (back at v3.2.10.0). It seems to be extremely selective about who it affects - I am not sure if you should be very flattered or very annoyed! :D

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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I can see it on any control that changes the cursor (edit, combos, etc). It's very subtle though, you have to drag the mouse slowly and you can just make out it is flickering beween an arrow and a bar. I've not got a WinXP/Win7 box immediately available to test. But I imagine it always happens on all systems but depending on the speed/video hardware people might just not notice.

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I ran this script below on my Windows 7 laptop, I saw the flicker very very infrequently but the MouseGetCursor function never once picked it up.

BTW, I used the timer routine to make sure I didn't miss any cursor changes because of not paying attention.

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#include <EditConstants.au3>

Global $oMyError

Example()

Func Example()
    Local $myedit, $msg, $X, $LastX

    $hGUI = GUICreate("My GUI edit") ; will create a dialog box that when displayed is centered

    $myedit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("First line" & @CRLF, 176, 32, 121, 97, $ES_AUTOVSCROLL + $WS_VSCROLL)

    GUISetState()

    Send("{END}")

    ; will be append dont' forget 3rd parameter
    GUICtrlSetData($myedit, "Second line", 1)
    $Timer = TimerInit()
    ; Run the GUI until the dialog is closed
    While 1
        $msg = GUIGetMsg()

        If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
        $X = MouseGetCursor()
        If $X <> $LastX Then
            ConsoleWrite("Mouse is now: " & $X & @TAB & "@ - " & Int(TimerDiff($Timer)) & @CRLF)
            $LastX = $X
        EndIf
    WEnd
    GUIDelete()
EndFunc   ;==>Example

Also, when I said very very infrequently, it was probably 2 - 3 times while running this for over a minute, and moving the cursor slowly around the Edit control.

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My output. Nice illustration of the condition by the way. On mine the flicker is very apparent and very fast. So I'm sure this is as well as the GUI loop can detect.

Mouse is now: 5 @ - 0
Mouse is now: 2 @ - 930
Mouse is now: 5 @ - 1374
Mouse is now: 2 @ - 3306
Mouse is now: 5 @ - 3371
Mouse is now: 2 @ - 4639
Mouse is now: 5 @ - 5385
Mouse is now: 2 @ - 9520
Mouse is now: 5 @ - 9963
Mouse is now: 2 @ - 10171
Mouse is now: 5 @ - 10394
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Not that this bit of info really matters, but using GuiCtrlSetCursor to set the IBeam cursor on the input controls stops the flickering. It's probably because it is flickering between IBeam and IBeam :/

Indeed.

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Tricksier than I first thought. The cursor handling is done at the window level and the technique used for changing the cursor for particular controls is a bit, well, hackish. I think I need to rewrite all the cursor handling and sub-class controls so that they set their own cursors instead - which is the better way anyhow I think. 

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