-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aaron can't send mail to the list right now, so here's a forward. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:36:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Top ruler & stuff OK, I don't think this got through to the list... - --- Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:14:15 -0700 (PDT) > From: Aaron Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Top ruler & stuff > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > Due to some pretty bad problems with my internet > connections, I only have net access on this mac and > may only have it here for the next few days. Paul > Egli > pointed out some stupid top ruler bugs I made (keep > 'em comming!) and I fixed them, but I have no way to > get diffs to this machine. I'll commit the changes > when my DSL comes back up. By the way, MacCVS Pro > seems to work quite well, although personally I far > prefer using CVS in a shell. It's good to know that > the people who may or may not be working on the mac > port have some good tools to work with. > > When profiling AbiWord with memprof because I was > bored, I noticed that 800k of the 1,500k of the ram > it > used was from the dictionary, which is loaded on > startup and kept in memory. I don't use > AutoSpellCheck > and I don't spell check things often, so I was > thinking it might be nice to put a check on whether > AutoSpellCheck was turned on and load or refrain > from > loading the dictionaries accordingly. When/if > AutoSpellCheck was turned on or the document was > spell-checked the dictionaries would be loaded if > they > had not been already. > > Seems easy. > > But it's not. > > The lack of an AP_App XP app class is KILLING me > when > trying to do this, becuase there is no good way to > find out whether the dictionaries have been loaded > or > to force them to be loaded from XP code, since all > of > the dictionary loading code is in platform-specific > application subclasses. Is there any reason why > there > is no AP_App class? I would have implemented one but > I'm guessing there was a reason why the hierarchy > was > designed like this and I don't want to keep > overturning previous consensuses. If there is an > objection to having an AP_App class (like multiple > inheritance, which is great IMHO), than maybe it > would > be possible to make an App version of the > AP_FrameData > class, so that non-XAP stuff could be put in XP App > code. > > I hope that made at least some sense. > > I've also been working on the Normal Mode patch. It > is > slowly getting closer to working. I need to keep > trying to understand the formatter, which has not > been > easy. I also realized that I have been ignoring Paul > Rohr's suggestions from a much earlier threads, and > I > plan to take a closer look at them. > > > Thanks, > Aaron Lehmann > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. > http://invites.yahoo.com/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5YXm3t+kM0Mq9M/wRAr4YAJ0Wsstt1U9H0oZ5h5dj4oNPC2Ic7gCgnOXI Mwi6B0CTVOC1V4LgzKHSRh8= =zZD4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
