Barry,
Let's remember I said 'experimental' for a reason. The current build as it 
stands is alpha level software, its not even at a beta level. As I stated 
earlier there are some kinks that need some smoothing out. I am confident that 
as I move forward I can address these issues, one by one. This is an initial 
implementation, not the end result the point of this current version is to 
prove one point, and only one point, will this speed up initial rendering 
times. Answer in my opinion Yes. Now I plan to work out the kinks. I feel 
strongly that long waits are unacceptable for a program that only displays 
text, and I am further encouraged in this opinion because other bible software 
on this platform and even Palm do not lag nearly as much (if at all) as ours 
does.

I like DM Smith's timestamping idea and will look into that. I am not so hot on 
the busy cursor unless its absolutely essential, and I can see times when is 
such as when searching but for dispaying text, I would rather not. Lord willing 
we can do this, its going to take several iterations but I feel this is 
priority #1 for this reason, *it's slow* adding new features will make it 
slower and harder to optimize later on down the line. Let's get this right now.

--
In Christ,
David


-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 8:18 AM
To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] SwordReader  -       Experimental    Double  
Buffering       added.]

Hi there ..........

DM Smith wrote:
> In another app, we put up a busy cursor and blocked input at the start 
> of every event and restored the cursor and user input at it's end.
Thanks for that - sounds good to me.  I think I'd prefer that approach 
to any other, as it lets the user know to wait!  And it is a long wait 
....  Do you think that's the answer, David?

God bless,
Barry

-- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed 
church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for our church 
homepages).

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