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Thursday, May 03, 2007 4:50 PM

Vista Aero DWM seems to optimize out GDI paint calls

In this post: Foxpro Menu items, combo boxes not refreshing selected item under Aero in Vista I describe a problem in Foxpro where menu and list items that are supposed to be non-selected aren’t painted correctly. I described a workaround: call the GdiSetBatchLimit
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:30 PM

Windows Vista Aero BorderStyle Paint problem as non Administrator

Above is an image of an inner form (from the C++ project below) before and after I dragged it a little bit up and left to obscure the title bar, then back to the original position. You can see the title, icon, close/minimize buttons were not painted correctly.
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Friday, April 27, 2007 5:31 PM

Fix your forms to paint borders correctly under Vista Aero

Apparently, the borders of some forms don’t get painted correctly on Windows Vista. When executing a Fox Form, Fox asks Windows to create a window, then sets the BorderStyle of the window. Apparently, under Vista Aero (except as Administrator), the BorderStyle
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:28 AM

Foxpro Menu items, combo boxes not refreshing selected item under Aero in Vista

If you’re running a Foxpro application under Vista when using Aero , you might encounter a problem when scrolling through lists, such as intellisense dropdowns, comboboxes, menus. As you move from one item in the list to the next, each item in turn appears
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