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- From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WBPattern requester slow
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 22:10:05 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
- Message-ID: <4l6ejt$a5e@news.ox.ac.uk>
- References: <699.6682T909T334@lustudat.student.lu.se>
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- In article <699.6682T909T334@lustudat.student.lu.se>,
- Niklas Brunlid <nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se> wrote:
- >Well, put simply, the filerequester called up by WBPattern takes a great del
- >of time to show even, say, 30 files (well, 5-6 seconds). This occured even
- >with AFS (which I, by the way, have banned from my HD). Does anybody else have
- >this problem? I'm using MCP to promote to ReqTools.
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- It uses a custom filter hook which only shows files recognised by
- datatypes.library as picture files. This requires opening and reading from
- each file in the directory in turn, to find out whether it is in a known
- format; the same behaviour can be seen in the file requester for the Sound
- preferences.
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