[fixed]Disk toolbar flickering when using non-Explorer icons

redfox · Post by *redfox » 2016-09-02, 13:51 UTC

If you set focus to a Total Commander window (switch from another application, restore from system tray etc.), the disk toolbar of TC always reloads itself. Only with an another icon set than the default (Explorer) one.

TC 9.0b12, OS Win7 32bit.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2016-09-02, 19:46 UTC

Yes, this is intentional because the disk icons can change.

redfox · Post by *redfox » 2016-09-02, 20:06 UTC

If they change, then reload them. But please, do not reload them everytime when TC is focused. The disk icons should be updated only after a new wm_devicechange message.

The blinking of disk icons is very disturbing.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2016-09-04, 10:27 UTC

I just tried to reproduce it, and I don't get any flickering. Are you using classic theme?

Anyway, there are cases where icons change when there is no WM_DEVICECHANGE, e.g. a network drive becomming accessible/inaccessible. TC has to remove/add the 'x' from/to the icon then.

redfox · Post by *redfox » 2016-09-04, 12:18 UTC

I just found the culprit:

If I set the OldDriveIcons=2 entry in wincmd.ini, or uncheck the "Show drive icons from Explorer" in the GUI Settings (does the same), the flickering occurs. If I remove the OldDriveIcons entry or set it to 0, everything is OK again.

Tested on Win7 and WinXP, both 32bit.

Is there a possibility to use the TC 8.52 drive icons in v9 without the flickering? I tried to download another custom drive icon set (from v7) too, but it does the same flickering when installed throught the DriveLib entry.

EDIT: Topic subject updated.

redfox · Post by *redfox » 2016-09-08, 09:34 UTC

Fixed in v9.0b13, thank you!