Flickering filecopy MB counter in Win7 with Classic theme...

[HAL 9000]

Version 8.0, both normal AND background filecopy progress. Visible when copying many, preferably large files. To be more specific, progress bar is *not* flickering, it is labels that are...for example

top Copy: XXXX kbytes/s, xx s
and bottom: XXXX MB / TOTAL MB

Not all the time, just randomly flicker every second or so..very annoying.

And only with Classic theme in Windows 7 32 bit
New PC with dedicated nVidia card so speed is not an issue here...

NOTE: With Aero there is no flicker at all :'( ...but that is a no go for me, I don't like fancy Aero effect, it distract me from doing actual work. YMOOC.
Searched help a little, tried with different NewStyleProgress in .ini but that did not help with flicker at all...

[ghisler(Author)]

Could you try the same with TC 7.57a, please? The 32-bit version should behave the same as TC 8.0...

[HAL 9000]

Huh, had some trouble finding old version..but ok, I found 7.57a and tested it. Result is, eh - strange...flickering MB copied labels are still there but less pronounced. Yes, it still flick once in a while but far less and almost unnoticeable... go figure

Anyway, by switching to 7.57a I noticed one more thing with copy progress bar with Classic Win7 32b theme.
This time is exactly about progress bar - top one to be exact (when multiple files are copied). It is behaving strange - hard to describe really...it's like every few seconds (few cm..) it goes backward for a few pixels and then continue normal progress and then repeat...pixel "backward" line and so on..
And no - now that I can compare versions, there is no such thing with 7.57. Top progress bar is behaving like expected. Switched again to 8.0, copy large multiple files - odd progress bar at moments like I described...

It seems that there is big difference in code for progress bar going from 7 to 8.0 and that code is not liking Classic Win7 32bit theme..

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, the big difference is that the progress bar is now handled in a different thread than the copy operation itself. This should make the actual copying faster. It's also updated at specific timer intervals, which may make it look to go backward when copying many releatively small files.

[HAL 9000]

Well I don't really know how faster it actually is, but I know that I have never ever seen any copyfile progress bar going "backward" for a few lines...
Anyway...I was curious so I copied bot TC versions to USB stick and tried it at my work Win XP computer...And yes, as I suspected...in XP with both versions everything is perfect - no bottom label XXX MB / YYY MB flickering, no "backward" progress bar...

[ghisler(Author)]

Hmm, no idea - I will try to add double buffering to these labels (they are automatically double buffered when using a theme).