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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:29:18 MET-1
From: Salvatore Cagliari <cagliaris@SWISSONLINE.CH>
Subject: [IML] IMPULSE: Pause instead of interrupt
Hi together
What do you think about this improvement:
When you render a pic, and you klick on Cancel, the only thing that imagine
does, is to ask you if he have to save the pic or no (This is on IFA). I think
it would be much better if it will ask us if he must continue the Render. I
mean a sort of Pause button instead of only cancel.
I mean if I have to do another thing before the pic has finished the render, I
could temopary interrupt the work, and then let continue the render when I
have finished.
A sort of continue a interrupted Render during a imagine session before, would
be much better, but much more difficult to implement.
I hope it's clear what I mean.
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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:04:32 +0100
From: Craig A Clark <craig@CHALLENGER-3D.PRESTEL.CO.UK>
Hi,
This is basically how IFW already works, cancel just stops the render, but
if you select close, you are asked 'cancel render?', so you can just pause
and then say no and it carries on.
This is how the IFA should be made to work, I think that is what you are
saying.
Cheers
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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 14:41:57 +0100
From: "Matthew O'Neill" <mash@DINGNET.DEMON.CO.UK>
Organization: Spectrum
Yep, this is often what I need to do, so here's sort of how you do it.
First of all, goto the aminet and get a programme called executive,
its free. in this package is a program called commander, this allows
you to select imagine and then set its priority to -147, in effect
this pauses it so that anything else you do will take priority over
it, so you could type a letter and not be slowed down.
hope this will do for now,
also as an added bonus, you amiga will now almost never crash or lock
up, instead executive will give you a choice when something crashes,
carry on, suspend it, remove it or reboot. This is like noton crash
guard except that its free (norton is 70 pounds here) and it works
(norton has crashed many times on me)
hope it helps
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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 19:02:16 EDT
From: AOLTechJOE <AOLTechJOE@AOL.COM>
Norton Crash Guard (also Norton Unistaller and Norton Utilities) for Win95
modify the Win95 DCOM which will cause all kinds of problems, including
causing MSIE to crash regularly. I would suggest never using them, never mind
paying for them.
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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 20:16:09 +0100
From: Andy Jones <andy@A-JONES.DEMON.CO.UK>
If you are using IFA 5.0 or above you could always make use of
Imagine's AREXX port. Open a shell and type:
rx 'address "Imagine_1" pauserender' or resumerender (if paused) or
stoprender (like clicking 'cancel' but doesn't delete the picture).
ps
Imagine 5.0's AREXX port name is 'Imagine.1' if I remember rightly.
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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 22:04:33 -0000
From: Martin McKenzie <marty@CADTECH.DEMON.CO.UK>
Organization: CADTech
This functionality already exists in Imagine (Since version 5.0), although not
directly from the cancel button.
Simply issue the ARexx command "PAUSERENDER" to the current Imagine
task, and it will pause the rendering process. The cancel button now changes
to a resume button, so either clicking on it or issuing the "RESUMERENDER"
ARexx command will start the rendering process again...
Please find attached a small script to demonstrate this function.
<< you will find the PauseRnd.irx in the Thread/Additional directory >>
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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 18:54:40 EDT
From: AOLTechJOE <AOLTechJOE@AOL.COM>
The ARexx commands support this pause render and resume. Could the CANCEL
button be changed to "STOP" and instead of asking to save picture have it ask
to PAUSE or CANCEL?
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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:45:47 MET-1
From: Salvatore Cagliari <cagliaris@SWISSONLINE.CH>
That's exactly what I mean. But for now the solution with the ARexx-Script
supplied from Martin and Andy is really good.
Martin, Mike, it's possible to implement this in the next version? If a
ARexx-command is available, it doesen't be so much difficult to implement it
directly in imagine.
Thank you very much for the help.
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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 12:06:51 -0000
From: Martin McKenzie <marty@CADTECH.DEMON.CO.UK>
The user interface will be enhanced to incorporate this functionality in a
future version. (Although it may look slightly different from the "STOP"
button method you have suggested. More on this later...)
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