Re: [MACTCL] some questions / remarks on tcltkaqua on 10.2

[Robert K. <ro...@cr...>]

Mads Linden wrote:
> jim first thanks for answering the mail, i have learned a lot about mac the
> last 7 days, puh!!
> 
> 
> 
>>>Vince sort of answered this one, though if you send an example, it
>>>would be interesting to run it under Sample and see where all the time
>>>is going.  Because of the need to handle both blocking select waits,
>>>and blocking WNE waits simultaneously, Tcl on X uses two threads, and
>>>there is some synchronization between the two threads that needs to go
>>>on.  There could be some bottle-neck here?
>>
> 
> the replacement for most "update" to "update idletasks" solved most of the
> problems, the only problem
> now is when i use a "label" with an image to simulate that the user is
> dragging an object = bind on <Motion>
> it is simply to slow to use, a shame but not a show stopper
> 


I didn't follow exactly what went on here, but I find it curious that
update would actually hurt performance of redraw (as opposed to
'update idle'.

Because I use code
on windows and mac, I've always used 'update' thinking it is more
reliable. Is there a tradeoff for doing this?

Thanks,

Robert Karen