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- !HelpAsk
-
- This is an speedy version of the acorn
- !Help application. It has been copied
- from the Application_1 disc, 'descrambled'
- to obtain the source(=basic) code it
- obtained. Next the old 'icon-based' routines
- were removed and replaced by 'real' redraw
- routines, based around the poll reasoncodes
- 'Redraw/UpdateWindow'.
-
- This has sped up things by about a 40 percent..
-
- Test.. on a ArcHi 340, ARM2, slow romspeed,
- with IDEFS,!Edit,!BasicEd,!Alarm, !Menon
- and 'TijmenvanGulik' virus blocker running.
- on RiscOs '2.50' i.e. extended 2.00 with
- RiscOS 3.00 filers and Clibs
-
- Acorns !Help V 0.31 272 polls/min (max)
- This !HelpAsk V X.XX 502 polls/min (avarage)
-
- ; polls=help polls, both running, only the programme
- ; under measurement had it's window open and was polling
- ; the other. Both !Help and !HelpAsk have been modified
- ; with a wee bit of basic to measure/display the time
- ;
- ; delta_time%=(delta_time%*4+(TIME-last_time%))/5
- ; last_time%=TIME
- ; helpr$+="|M Avarage speed :"+STR$(6000/delta_time%)+" Helppolls/min"
- ;
-
- And has made the !help(ing) message handling
- a wee bit smoother. Which was the prime reason
- to get started with this, I needed a smooth
- displaying routine for !Locomtion, a folly
- which runs a western-movie, with 'stereo-sound'
- provided as HelpMessages.
-
- Have fun.......
-
- And.. Annyway, Send Chrismascards, moans, bugs and
- feedback to :
-
- (c) February 1991 Version 0.00
- Dirk-Willem van Gulik
- Landgoed Leeuwzicht
- 7533 RK Enschede
- The Netherlands
-
- Email DWVGULIK@Utwente.nl
- IAPS@phys.uva.nl
-
- or on a public BBS
- - UT-BBS, phone (+31)-(0)53-898005
- and mailname : Dirk Gulik
-
- Lots of Love........................Dirk-Willem.
-
- PS Feel free to copy this programme, as long
- as the INFO window and this !HELP file contains
- at least the information originally supplied,
- and are kept/stored along with the programme.
-
- All modification welcome. Keep me informed !
-