Here’s a very simple bot I created just to illustrate very bad and annoying screen flicker as search results are being displayed, often followed by an inability to scroll up. These issues would be a show-stopper for users.
https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIOOQ7G2GI54TB2RQW/Test_Bot_CHRRN
This demo bot is programmed to display a list of YouTube videos on instructional design methodologies. I’m using a Chrome browser on an Asus PC.
I’ve had the scrolling ussue as well…page keeps auto scrolling to the bottom despite fighting it with the mouse.
@nathaniel Also copy pasting seems to be an issue. When i used the copy button it pasted this instead of the text from the results. Please see the screenshot.
I do not experience the flickering when I tested it. I believe it’s happening. I’d like to recreate it to better understand the cause of it. Can you record a video of the flickering?
Thanks for looking into this, Mike… Here’s a link to a video that illustrates the issue: ScreenFlicker02.mp4 - Google Drive
This was recorded on a 3-year-old Asus Zenbook that has plenty of RAM and handles graphics well. I tested it just now on an older Lenovo Flex5 laptop, and see the same issue.
I did discover that the “screenlock” I reported above was actually occurring because I didn’t have my cursor inside the limited display area of the chat output. There’s no visual definition of the chat output area, so it’s not entirely obvious where to place the cursor when scrolling. The ideal, I think, would be to have the scrolling work regardless of where the cursor was on the page, but I don’t know if it’s possible to program it that way. An alternative might be to show a border around the chat output area, with a scrollbar in that.
