Hi Marcos, >> another chance would obviously be making fdapm aware :-) > > Do you mean, authors making their programs FDAPM aware?
No I mean making FDAPM aware of the programs... Exactly the same way as your "DPAKBD" is aware of your programs, without having to change your programs, as I understood. > The only programs I write are in high-level languages such as > Euphoria. Interestingly, I checked the Euphoria manual, and > found that there are two distinct input commands, get_key() and > wait_key(). The difference is that... I remember you talking about that - this would be an example for making programs in a style that makes it easier for FDAPM, POWER and similar to see idleness. > wait_key() lets the operating system do other useful work > while your program is waiting for the user to press a key." I do not think that I understand what DOS Euphoria does there... > So I changed all the get_key's in my programs into wait_key's, > and it really worked ... it even passed the finger-on-CPU test So even if we do not understand, it still does the right thing :-) > Examples of non-aware programs which I use often and typically > for long periods are: SuperCalc spreadsheet, DataPerfect > database, Desi-III CAD, and the image viewers ShowJPG, PictView > and LXPic. I don't think their authors would change them... Is any of them free for download? In what way are they CPU-hot? And in what way does DPAKBD treat them differently? Are there also side effects of using DPAKBD? Does it maybe slow down the programs that it makes CPU-cool? Or does it slow down others? > juncture. Fortunately, DPAKBD has been working well with them, > but subject to the inconveniences I reported in the previous > email, like freezing and rebooting. Can you give some more explanations about what DPAKBD is and does, which license it has, which configuration options...? > Text editors are no problem, since the best of them -- Aurora, > FTE, Thomson-Davis, SetEdit -- are all natively FDAPM-aware. Nice :-) > Same for the Links browser. Also nice :-) How about elinks, lynx, w3m, Arachne, Dillo? Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
