Re: Screen going black in 9.51

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On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:27:09 +0100, Haavard Kvam Moen  
<haavard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How many GDI objects is Opera using, according to Task Manager?

I opened 9.51 and it was 293.

I then tried following my steps of going onto the search settings and it  
went up to 354.

Here's an image I drew that approximates what I saw in 9.51 a few seconds  
after I closed the preferences dialogue:

  http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/7708/gdi1si0.png

And here's what appeared when I moved my mouse around the black area:

  http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/5682/gdi2hg9.png

Both of those are from memory. They may not be exactly right.

I have an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics card with 64MB of on-board  
RAM. There were no heavy graphics apps open at the same time and I haven't  
seen this in any other version of Opera.



Perhaps another problem I've seen is also related to Opera's new way of  
drawing to the screen? I have a page where hovering over certain elements  
triggers CSS rules to make a text glow appear under that element's text,  
but this doesn't work in 9.5. If I leave the mouse where it is and use the  
keyboard to move to another open program and then back again, the text  
shadow is drawn correctly so this seems to be a painting problem rather  
than Opera not applying the CSS rule.

If I then move the mouse away from the element, the glow remains on the  
screen until I force a repaint by toggling the panel or switching apps  
again. Safari always displays/removes the text shadow as expected.

I don't imagine making text glows appear on CSS ':hover' rules is a high  
priority in itself, but I thought it might be a clue to some bugs in  
Opera's new painting methods which is why I reported it (319345) along  
with some other outstanding bugs that cause scroll bars to recieve mouse  
clicks when other elements are positioned above them.