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I have a multi-line edit box with one line of text in it.

When resizing the dialog the text flickers heavily.

Please fix.

Yes I did.

Please look at the previous thread about this bug - there is a screen-shot of the edit box properties.

Did you apply the WS_CLIPCHILDREN and WS_CLIPSIBLINS styles to your dialog window as we already suggested?

Can you please confirm this bug and fix it?

Please understand us right. We have researched this problem in details. But we came to conclusion that is easier to replace edit control with rich edit control if you need flicker free editor or log viewer window which is also can be used as both single line and multiline text editor. This is clearly visible in the ProfUIS_Controls sample application where you can compare resizing of multiline rich edit on the Date Browser dialog page and simple multiline edit control on the Date and Time dialog page. In both case Prof-UIS skinned scroll bars are applied but in both cases inner client are is painted by original controls - not by Prof-UIS. We would be really happy to fix flicker of simple edit common control, but it looks like it’s very special issue because we suspect Windows and/or Common Control library handles edit windows in some special way. It’s easier for us to code a new editor like http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/crysedit.aspx or http://www.scintilla.org. It’s easier for you to switch using rich edit window and not to wait for anything. Besides, MS Office, Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 applications are using rich editor windows everywhere it’s possible: all the edit controls inside toolbars and menus (including combo boxes) are rich editors there.