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- From: oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
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- Subject: Re: Announce: AWeb 1.0 released!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 23:49:05 +0200
- Organization: What, me, organised?
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- In article <jasonb.827896888@cs.uwa.edu.au> jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch) writes:
- >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.)
-
- If he was relying on priorities staying fixed, you'd see a crash, not
- lack of response. Try to configure Executive to keep "AWeb" (the main
- task) priority higher than the child tasks ("AWeb retrieve" and
- "AWebIP").
-
- >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
-
- Once again, none of the gadgets in AWeb forms have anything to do with
- ClassAct. AWeb supported forms before Yvon started using ClassAct, and
- a lot of the gadgets are custom and belong to AWeb only.
-
- >IBrowse supports AS225r2 (I know you were complaining about this,
-
- No, it doesn't. I've seen an old version of http.library for AS225,
- which doesn't work with the latest IBrowse, and I've heard that the
- IBrowse team have forbid the release of AS225 compatible http.library
- V2 because of some childish grudge against I-Net 225 and Surfer.
-
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- Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.
- | "Osma Ahvenlampi" <mailto:oa@iki.fi> <http://www.iki.fi/oa/> |
- | Amiga&BeBox&ClassAct&Voodoo&ARTech cool stuff: I-Net225&AWeb |
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