What is this flashing message doing there?

[357mag 2]

I wrote a very simple program that asks the user to enter an integer. When I was writing the code for the Quit button, I saw a flashing word on the screen, below all the code. This word flashes just for a brief second and then goes away. It looks like the word is calculating...

Is this a bug?

[Remy Lebeau 1421]

Which version of the IDE are you using? Are you seeing the flash appear in the code editor, or in your program's UI?  Can you get a screenshot of the flash?

[357mag 2]

I don't think I can capture a screen shot because it's quite fast. I'll try anyway though. I'm using the Community Edition. 12 Version 29.0.51961.7529. I'm seeing the flash in the code editor. Really strange and I'd like to get rid of it.

[357mag 2]

I tried very hard to capture a screenshot but to no avail. But the message definitely says calculating...

I'd like to report it to Embarcadero but I'm sure they too would ask me for a screenshot. Without that I don't know what they could even do about it.

Edited December 10 by 357mag

[Remy Lebeau 1421]

4 hours ago, 357mag said:

I tried very hard to capture a screenshot but to no avail. But the message definitely says calculating...

What about a short screen capture video?

4 hours ago, 357mag said:

I'd like to report it to Embarcadero but I'm sure they too would ask me for a screenshot. Without that I don't know what they could even do about it.

Well, they could search their source code for the word "calculating"...

[Roger Cigol 107]

I think this sounds like the "auto complete" calculating what to allow you to enter as part of the code. This was a bit flakey on some of the recent versions but works quite well on 12.2

[pmcgee 22]

If you can see it on the screen, you can capture video of your screen.

If it's in the IDE, then eg Delphi has a CodeInsight bar that buzzes up a little for a moderate size project (like DevCpp), loading or analyzing some stuff, then disappears.

[DelphiUdIT 182]

To capture the screen you can simply make a video with your smartphone.

[Brian Evans 109]

The Snipping Tool in Windows 11 does video in addition to static screen grabs. After triggering (SHIFT+Win+S) make sure video is selected, select the screen region you want to record then start recording.