On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 03:49:45PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 01:10:33PM +0100, Richard Z wrote: > > it happened when I downloaded the zips with Firefox. I have no idea if I > > have > > closed PilBox properly before, will try again. The first download (calc) > > went > > I see. In fact, I have not investigated what happes if a PIL.zip is pushed > into > a running PilBox. Might be unpredictable, depending on whether the new files > conflict with the (possibly running) old ones. > > Therefore, I recommend to always stop PilBox, then start it by clicking a new > PIL.zip.
ok, seems reasonable anyway. > > fine. Opening the second download which I think was "demo" with PilBox made > > PilBox install it and now I had two app buttons to choose from. Hitting the > > new one gave me an blank page with the text "not found" and no navigation > > buttons at all. > > I saw this "not found" message (it is from the WebView component) > occasionally. > The reason was usually that I started a new PilBox too quickly without the old > one having enough time to clean up and terminate. > > BTW, you can find out the reason for a crash usually by starting new, going to > the REPL, and typing > > $ cat log- didn't even realise this was a crash.. > > > However, I cannot observe any slow down-here, even after very many > > > clicks. I > > > haven't tested on 32-bit hardware though. The emulator is up to 20 times > > > slower > > > than the native binary, are you using the arm32.zip plugin? > > > > yes, I am using the arm32 plugin and I suspect the "life" display is > > continuously > > running in the background in hundreds of versions. > > I won't think so, as this animation is driven by JavaScript (the '(+Click > +Auto > +Button) in "demo/fields.l"), which stops as soon as the browser leaves the > page. Not sure what happens ... you are right, after playing with it a bit more it seems to be the "canvas" demo. Tapping it does seemingly nothing but afterwards everything is dead slow. Richard -- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
