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- From: jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 27 Mar 96 03:21:28 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
-
- >jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch) writes:
-
- >>The "chooser" gadget at the top of the settings window also locks my
- >>machine up a lot. I just tried again, disabling all non-standard stuff
- >>in my bootup, and the first time I selected it five times, choosing
- >>different pages, before the machine locked, while the second time it
- >>locked straight away.
-
- >Hmm. Doesn't happen here.
-
- I can get it to lock up almost without fail. It makes changing
- preferences a rather painful process. :-/ I don't think there are even
- any Enforcer hits (LED doesn't flash and no sound, but I can't be sure
- as I have to run it locally and not through the serial port).
-
- >>I've found, however, and I suspect ClassAct is at fault (several of the
- >>programs in the CA demo on Aminet crashed my machine, too).
-
- >This is a CA gadget. Hmm. Are you sure that you do not have an old
- >version of ClassAct installed somewhere else ?
-
- I did, but the Install script successfully overwrote all the gadgets
- (but not, curiously, all the images; I had to manually update two, but
- perhaps they were the same version).
-
- >If not, what Kickstart
- >do you use ?
-
- 40.70.
-
- [...]
-
- >Strange. When I use AWeb I can scroll and click, even enter text into
- >forms while the page is loaded.
-
- [...]
-
- >Again strange. I can abort any transfer (although many transfers are
- >backgrounded and I need the network window to abort them).
-
- [...]
-
- >Doesn't happen here. If I move back and forth this works as if the
- >pages are loaded from the net, except that there is no network activity.
-
- [...]
-
- >Since we are using the same AWeb there must be a difference. Did you
- >ever try it without Executive ? The scheduler might have some significant
- >influence on the behaviour of multithreaded applications.
-
- You're right, it was because of Executive. I rebooted without it and
- suddenly it started working the same as IBrowse, even following links
- in part-loaded pages while the .html was still loading just like
- IBrowse does. Unfortunately the whole machine became sluggish while it
- was processing (boy, it's really easy to notice the difference when
- you're not running Executive!). Perhaps the author could work on his
- multithreading a little to make it Executive-friendly, like IBrowse
- is? Is he relying on the tasks to be at certain priorities? (IBrowse
- by default starts the threads at -1, but that is settable via the
- preferences and certainly works while Executive is moving priorities
- around.)
-
- One other thing I noticed - when typing into a string gadget on a
- form, the whole border of the gadget is redrawn with each keypress. I
- presume this is also a CA problem. Oh, and also, the last demo of
- IBrowse supports AS225r2 (I know you were complaining about this,
- Michael) but I haven't been able to get it to work yet (works fine
- under AmiTCP4.0 demo, fails to make any network connections under
- AS225r2, with or without renaming the http.library as indicated).
- I'd be curious to know if anyone else has got it working.
-
- > Michael van Elst
- >Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
-
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