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From: Ben H. <bh...@al...> - 2001-07-05 19:23:00
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> >Initial Comment: >This is strage: When I put Scribia in the background, my >foreground appication is dog-slow. When I drag something >over Scribia's scanning progress indicator, things speed up a >lot in the foreground. Not sure why that might be, but.. >I have no clue about Mac internals, so this might be a stupid >assumption: Does the progress indicator use spinning or >something like it that eats a lot of cycles? Yes, scanning is not very friendly to other apps. Also, calling waitnextevent yourself in a powerplant app is A Bad Thing=81. We do not treat other apps nicely. And we don't have a freakin' cancel button. Still need to look into threading the scanner. -Ben -- NOTE: Please change my address in your address book from bhines at san.rr.co= m to bhines at alumni.ucsd.edu as my UCSD address will be permanent. <http://freepages.sf.rootsweb.com/~bhines/> - My Genealogy Pages |