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- From: Allen Winter <AWINTER1@agt.ab.ca>
- Subject: Re: Selecting the ClickChunk ..Help?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.183323.25107@agt.uucp>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 18:33:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.040625.20122@utkux1.utk.edu> Danny William
- McCampbell, danny@martha.utcc.utk.edu writes:
- >I have a field with grouped text in it. When a user clicks on a
- >portion of the text I am selecting the ClickChunk. The problem I am
- >having is this is extremely slow. After the user clicks the text
- >is selected(highlighted) after about 2 seconds. Is there any way to
- >speed this up. I would like the text to become selected immediately.
-
- I think the delay you are observing is machine dependent (i.e. CPU speed,
- etc) because on my Mac IIcx, the highlighting happens virtually
- instantaneously after releasing the mouse. However on a Mac SE, it is
- noticeably slower (possibly 1 to 2 sec).
-
- Allen Winter;
- AGT Ltd; R&D; Edmonton, Alberta
- AWINTER1@agt.ab.ca
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