Neville Smythe wrote: > > On 27/12/2003, at 4:00 AM, Alex Rice wrote: > >>> and type anything into the search field so that the Find button >>> pulsates >> >> And that button is the culprit right there. It's really OS X's fault, >> for making pulsating gumdrop eye candy that uses tons of CPU resources. >> (and it is the OS that's doing the rendering, not Rev). I think it's >> not just Revolution apps that have this problem. >>> >>> > > No sorry Alex, the pulsating button is NOT the problem - that doesn't > take very much CPU time at all (Apple wouldn't make that mistake, which > would be entirely unacceptable) Check out any dialog box with a > pulsating button (well, any of the Apple apps, and anything I've > written :-)) --- hardly any effect on CPU usage. RunRev seems to have a > tight loop running in the Find & Replace window when something is > present in the search field (but not otherwise).
No human is perfect, and an organization is merely a collection of humans. You may have missed this earlier explanation: >> I'm not so sure. I just tried the Search dialog boxes in Lotus Notes 6, >> Word X and TextEdit 1.2, ALL of which have pulsating, blue Default >> buttons, and NONE of them made the CPU monitor hit the maximum the way >> that Revolution does. > > And none of those are authoring tools which allow you to place pulsing buttons > against backgrounds other than the OS default striped background. > > In order to provide the flexibility demanded of a multimedia tool, the button > has to be buffered to render against any background a developer might choose. > Multimedia developers are a picky lot, and not all of them always want the > background Steve Jobs says they should want. > > I don't know what Tuviah has planned, but judging from how other programmer > have dealth with this I suspect he can allow a less CPU-intensive rendering > only with an option for reduced flexibility. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
