When you double-click on, for example, a graph axis a flickering pattern appears along the axis before the associated dialog box opens. When running Origin 5.0 under Windows95 this flickering occurs for about a second at the most in all cases. However, using Windows98 it seems to go on for about five seconds for an axis dialog. I've also had the same problem opening the contour details box of a contour plot by double clicking. In this case the whole plot flickers for about a second under Windows95, but in the case of Windows98 the duration of the flickering seems to depend on the complexity of the plot. I've had it go on for nearly a minute before the dialog box opens in some cases - seriously annoying.

Of course, this can be avoided by right clicking over the plot/axis and select "Details" from the menu when I'm using Windows98...if I remember!

Is this a general problem or just the particular combination of hardware/software I have?

Thanks,

Regarding Excess flicker when opening Origin
Dialog Boxes:

I have tested Origin version 5.0 while running under
Windows 98 and have not been able to reproduce this
problem here in the lab. Your problem may be a
result of the video card or video driver that you are
using. To test this, boot up your computer in safe
mode, (Instructions on how to do this are found by
clicking on the Windows 98 [Start] button and
selecting Help: Topic "SAFE MODE"). If the
flickering stops while in safe mode the, problem is
most likely the result of a device driver, possibly the
screen driver or print driver. You can try using a
newer or alternate driver.

You might also want to see what view mode you are
using when a graph window is active. The Graph
will always update faster when you are in the Page
View mode. To confirm this have the graph window
active and select: View: Page View from the Origin
Menu Bar. This will update the window faster than if
you were in Print View.

If you are still unable to get rid of the flicker, we
have a system property that can be used to
completely turn off the flicker.

Open the Origin Script Window, (Window: Script
Window) and paste the following into the window.
Highlight this line and press the key.

SYSTEM.DISPLAY.SELBLINK=0;

This will turn off the flashing completely.

This option is only available if you have Origin 5.0
with the SR2 patch installed. To confirm the
installation of SR2, go to the Origin Menu Bar and
Select: Help: About Origin

The display box will clearly say:

Version 5.0 SR2 if this patch is installed.

If it is not installed please go to the Microcal
Software web site and download and install the patch.

http://www.microcal.com/www/tech/patch52text.html

You will then be able to use the Origin command

SYSTEM.DISPLAY.SELBLINK=0;

In hope this problem will be solve in future revision of the product (whithout being obliged to switch flickering off), I may describe the computer on witch it append (this problem doesn't appear on another computer with different configuration running under NT4.0) :

Cheers,

Edit the file OPTION.CNF (found in your Origin software folder) and change the line

SYSTEM.DISPLAY.SELBLINK=1;

to

SYSTEM.DISPLAY.SELBLINK=0;

Hope this helps.

I couldn't get the SYSTEM.DISPLAY.SELBLINK=0 running in the script window. Also there was no OPTION.CNF, possibly this is only valid for 5.0... What to do with it??? Any suggestions?

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