Double Buffering STM324x9I-EVAL Demo/Examples

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  • Double Buffering STM324x9I-EVAL Demo/Examples

    Hi

    I am having flickering problems and wonder if you can help. I know the classic answer is "use multi-buffering" but your examples do not seem to us this yet have no flicker. A typical demo by you would be:

    STM32Cube_FW_F4_V1.15.0\Projects\STM324x9I_EVAL\Applications\STemWin\STemWin_SampleDemo\MDK-ARM


    On my own project I get flicker. I am using the same STM324x9i_eval_MB1046 display driver and also running on an STM324x9I-EVAL PCBA. My project uses the same GUI_X_Config setup and I have not made changes for the pre-processor controls for the display driver (ie same #defines for number of layers, number of buffers). OS is RTX (and emWIN is made aware of this). LCD is connected via LTDC (as said, I am using the MB1046 driver without any changes as my project is running on the -EVAL board).

    I create my windows using WM_CreateWindowAsChild() and do all my painting within a WM_PAINT. A typical _paint() would GUI_DrawBitmap() a full-size background and then GUI_DrawStringAt() onto this bitmap.

    You don't get flicker in your samples on the -EVAL board yet you do not use WM_MULTIBUF_Enable(1) nor any obvious multi-buffering support. You are using the same driver (LCD_X_Config etc) and the hardware is the same. Your demos are my go-to reference but I cannot see what I may be setting different (except that I use RTX vs no-RTOS for the examples).

    Q: Does anything spring to mind (a setting/setup) that needs to be made to use the 1046 driver on the EVAL? I cannot find anything. Or is it simply that your demos do not need multi-buffering as there is no OS/no halts during processing.


    Thanks

    Mark