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- From: nma95nbr@lustudat.student.lu.se (Niklas Brunlid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: WBPattern requester slow
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 16:33:32 GMT
- Organization: Lund University
- Message-ID: <1236.6683T1091T676@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.
-
- >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.
-
- Can this be disabled with a hack or something? The dirs I keep my WB-pics in
- consists of nothing more than, well, pictures...
-
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