I could see this display issue also after extracting UltraEdit for Windows v19.00.0.1031 from an archive which contains UC Lite v8.00.0.1010 and started from within UE v19.00 a text file comparison using UC Lite v8.00 on Windows 7 x64.
Next I restored also UltraCompare Professional for Windows v8.00.0.1027 from an archive, started it and could see same flickering of main menu items. It looks like the menu items with an icon are invalidated all the time and therefore redrawn all the time.
I am 100% sure that this display issue did not occur on same Windows 7 x64 machine as UC Prof. v8.00 was released January 2011.
I started next UltraCompare Professional for Windows v8.00.0.1027 on a Windows XP x86 machine and could not see that flickering.
So I suppose that a Windows security update of one of the DLLs used by UC Prof./Lite v8.00 is responsible for the flickering menu items with an icon.
On Windows XP x86 machine UC Professional/Lite v8.00 uses
%SystemRoot%\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.GdiPlus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.0.6002.23084_x-ww_f3f35550\GdiPlus.dll
which is the only installed Microsoft GdiPlus library on this machine which has internally the version
5.2.6002.23084.
On Windows 7 x64 machine UC Professional/Lite v8.00 uses
%SystemRoot%\winsxs\x86_microsoft.windows.gdiplus_6595b64144ccf1df_1.1.7601.23894_none_5c0be957a009922e\GdiPlus.dll
which is just one of in total 8 installed Microsoft GdiPlus libraries on this machine which has internally the version
6.1.7601.23894.
Which GdiPlus.dll is loaded on starting UC Prof./Lite is controlled by Window Side-by-Side management. It should be possible to force a specific version of a DLL using
per-application configuration with an
application configuration file. But I have no knowledge on how to create a valid
ucl.exe.config (for UC Lite) respectively
uc.exe.config (for UC Prof.) which specifies that Windows should load on starting UC Lite/Prof. v8.00 a specific older version of the GdiPlus.dll on which this display issue does not occur as in the past.
What worked on my tests was copying the files
ucl.chm,
ucl.exe and
uclres.dll of English 32-bit UltraEdit v22.10 over those three files installed with English 32-bit UltraEdit v19.00. Those three files of UE v22.10 are the latest UCL files of version 14.00.0.1004 compatible with UE v19.00. The UC Lite files of 32-bit UE v22.20 and all newer versions of UltraEdit are not anymore downwards compatible.
ucl.exe v14.00.0.1004 depends additionally on the
ICU library files
icuuc49.dll and
icudt49.dll installed with UltraEdit v22.10 in version 49.1.1. UltraEdit executable depends additionally also on
icuin49.dll, but not
ucl.exe.
So I can suggest just following 3 solutions for this display issue:
- An upgrade to latest UltraEdit is made to get installed also latest version of UC Lite.
- Just the three files of UC Lite are upgraded by taking them from UltraEdit version 22.10 plus adding the two ICU library files.
The three files of UC Lite v14.00 from UE v22.10 have to be requested from IDM by email.
The two additionally needed ICU library files can be get by downloading from page ICU4C Binary Download (49.1.1) the ZIP file icu4c-49_1_1-Win32-msvc10.zip and extract from directory icu\bin inside the ZIP file the two files icuuc49.dll and icudt49.dll into the program files folder of UltraEdit with ucl.exe.
- Somebody finds out how to define correct ucl.exe.config so that Windows loads an older version of GdiPlus.dll on which this display issue does not occur with UCL v8.00.0.1010. This could be also support of IDM.
