550693 - Editor "blinks" when jumping back from the commandline

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Skywriter Graveyard :: Editor, defect)

Description

[Julian Viereck]

If you focus the commandline in Bespin and then focus the editor again, you 
will notice that the editor "blinks" for a short time (blinking = you see the 
blue background color of SproutCore).

Comment 1

[Julian Viereck]

Attachment: Fix the bug.

The blinking is caused by the fact, that jumping back to the editor resizes the editor's canvas. If you resize a HTML5 canvas, the entire content is dropped. Due to this, the editor is back again AFTER the first repainting, which takes at least 33ms. In the meantime, you see the background of the SproutCore app.

To fix this, I've prevented the canvas from downsizing.

Comment 2

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

Having the canvas unable to shrink is annoying, but I don't see any way around it short of having multiple canvases (which is something we probably want to do at some point). For now this patch is fine. Applied as changeset 158cbe613fd1.