Good points, Robert, and well taken.  Thank you.

Troy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 12:24 PM
Subject: RE: Scroll Speed


> Hi Troy, Marek, and Billy,
>
> There is a GPL smooth autoscroll available however in CSpotRun that can
increase the speed when
> doing single pixel autoscroll. However it is not a "snippet", it is a very
large piece of extra
> code that involves complete redraws offscreen and sliding them upwards,
and since Plucker
> renders much more than text, it would make the Plucker viewer
significantly larger.
>
> It was decided at the time to keep the viewer as small of a piece of code
as possible. This was
> coupled with the fact that Palm OS5 was around the corner with processor
speed which were
> supposed to be increased by a few orders of magnitude. On a faster
processor (as was simulated
> by Afterburner) looking at single pixel scroll, the results of the current
compact code were
> the same as the CSPotRun approach, without dumping a lot of extra code to
weigh down the viewer.
>
> Best wishes,
> Robert

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