Icons are occasionally blank

[jvalette]

Since recently I rarely saw icons disappear. Even as it is not a big deal I wanted to let you know.

[alex]

It is related to the relatively recently added code to suppress flicker (so it is only in v7), there are two aspects, one for the newsgroup views, another for the task manager article view, at first I wrote the part for the newsgroup view code, then when adopting the code to do the same in the task manager (as its lists internally are different) I forgot to initialize a boolean variable, so its initial state is undefined, but after one call when the reduce flicker code is actually engaged (which happens not always) the variable is set, so the issue fixes itself. Until then it is some random number when it is needed to be zero, so state icons are not redrawn sometimes when they should. If you want you can download the current state which includes the fix, if you invoke help menu->about while holding the ctrl key you'll see the version v7.2b.

https://www.usenetexplorer.com/temp/ue72reg64b.zip

There are also some other developments there for the next release, just invoke "More" -> "Run Anyway" if prompted by the "defender" "smart screen", but it may be the same with a new release anyway until it is whitelisted or worse, since for some reason Microsoft exercising control of what is running on their system, likely using fighting malware just as a pretext.

[jvalette]

Thanks Alex,
Works fine now.