Minimizing new window flickering while painting #1134
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May have to add some extra sync mechanisms in the failing test |
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Related issue
Closes #1129
Context / Background
Whenever we open a new BrowserWindow in the app (waiver manager, preferences) it will flicker for a while with a white background while the elements show and the colors change. This happens because the window opens before it's properly painted by its javascript code.
What change is being introduced by this PR?
Introducing a custom WindowReadyToShow ipc event that the windows send when they have at least applied the window theme. The browser window creation on main waits for this event to invoke the .show() method. Not using the default 'ready-to-show' event as that still led to a flicker.
On renderer, the JS function requestAnimationFrame is used as it sort of provides a callback to run after a window has been animated/painted, and that helped synchronize things.
Electron still has a bug on windows that leads to a small flicker https://www.github.com/electron/electron/issues/42523 but I've minimized it here so that it's less of a visual bother.
Before
After
How will this be tested?
Tests were modified to listen for the event as well, making sure it is sent and works.