We can do this for some questions easily, but not for others. We do
plan on investigating this thoroughly at some point in the future.
At 02:31 AM 6/15/2009, you wrote:
A few days ago, someone here on the list, told us, that many times
when WE crashes, or gets hung, it is due to a 'conversation'
problem, between WE and an application. It was describe, as I
remember it, as if WE and the application haave this conversation:
'Tell me your name?' 'Hello', 'tell me your name', 'hello', 'tell...'
I do see, this will cause an endless loop, which will catch WE, and
may even burn-in the whole system in a non-responding state. What I
am wondering, is that this is no trouble only WE is having. We know
the trouble even from other software, and from hardware, and these
'handshakers' sometimes get hooked. That is why things like printer
drivers, have a TIMEOUT feature, that simply cancels the whole
conversation, if it has been going on for a predefined time. Some
drivers even have the feature for the user to preset this timeout.
Just wonder if WE is making use of a timeout, and if not, why? If it
had a timeout, that canceld the conversation between the WE, and the
application, after 3 seconds, or whatever, the user might experience
that WE might opt out of an application, but at least, he would
still have his speech/Braille feedback to get things finished on his
system, or simply close the offending application, and continue
working with his computer. Imagine if your Printer driver did not
have a timeout feature, and every time you tried to print a bit
bigger amount of text, the whole system got hooked, and you needed
to restart the computer? Wonder how many would have bought that
printer.. :D How about a good timeout, gw. OK, let it sit for a
couple of seconds; certain software simply just are SLOW - like some
of us. But if WE have tried to get in touch with IE for the last
five seconds, it might as well consider IE as having made its early
summer vaccation. How long would you have been hanging on to that
door bell, when your friend is sleeping in? :)
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