Wiggling Transparency Checkerboard (150% zoom v4.0.13)

[Pyrian]

When I'm at 150% zoom level and select an area, the transparency checkerboard starts wiggling around the selection. Looks... Creepy. I'm using 4.0.13.

[MJW]

Strange. I don't seem to have the same effect. If you have hardware acceleration enabled, you might try disabling it to see whether that changes anything.

[AndrewDavid]

Nice pic  - I see that all the time - I thinks its your CPU asking for a beak - or your memory has reached capacity. But that is only my opinion. I run a lot of effects that I think do not get out of memory as well as they should. A restart seems to solve that shaker effect. Thought it was just my eyes asking for a rest.

 

[toe_head2001]

Paint.net uses tiled rendering. That specific tile is updating (redrawing).

 

As MJW says, please disable Hardware Acceleration in the Settings of paint.net, and see if it makes a difference.

 

Please also post your System Diagnostic information.

Settings -> Diagnostics -> Copy to Clipboard

[AndrewDavid]

Application    paint.net 4.0.13 (Final 4.13.6191.1824)
Build Date    December 13, 2016
    
Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU)    False
Animations    True
DPI    96.00 (1.00x scale)
Language    en-US
    
OS    Windows 10 (10.0.14393.0)
.NET Runtime    4.0.30319.42000
Physical Memory    8,143 MB
    
CPU    Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460  CPU @ 3.20GHz
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    Features    DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2, XSAVE
    
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Here's mine if you see anything unusual. I turned off the hardware acceleration and will let the post know if I see it again.

 

[Rick Brewster]

This is due to rounding errors based on the size of the invalidation rectangle. It's a bug that keeps coming back everytime I think I've fixed it. But, it's purely a visual artifact and nothing bad is actually happening.

 

The invalidation rectangle is the part of the screen that needs to be redrawn. Those corner handles are fading in and out, but they don't change their appearance on every frame. And the selection outline is animating as well, but it also doesn't change every frame. So sometimes the invalidation rectangle surrounds the whole selected area plus the handles, but sometimes it only surrounds the selected rectangle. And at non-integral (anything other than 100%, 200%, 300%, etc.), you just get rounding errors. And there's some line or two of code that is incorrectly rounding up when it should round down, or vice versa. And it's difficult to reproduce this, and it's difficult to figure out which line of code to tweak, and it's difficult to test to make sure that some other and bigger problem wasn't introduced with the fix.

 

Sometimes the rounding error is worse with hardware acceleration. Sometimes it's worse with software rendering.

 

So, tl;dr ...  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[AndrewDavid]

1 minute ago, Rick Brewster said:

So, tl;dr ...  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

LOL - not a problem for me at all