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- From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Annoying frivolous redraw on newmail scan
- Message-ID: <BtynKy.8qD@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 17:07:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.BtynKy.8qD
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- Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- In ELM v2., there is a rather annoying redraw of the screen every time the
- program checks for new mail. Even if the program hasn't found any new
- mail (and thus, has nothing to change on the user's screen), the screen is
- redrawn.
-
- This wouldn't be annoying except for the fact that many people, among them
- myself, open a window or screen for ELM and then put it in the background
- with just a little flag to tell us whether the screen has changed or not.
- For example, using Stuart on the NeXT computer, if you miniaturize a
- window, the icon turns grey when something on that window has changed.
- ELM's redraw sets off that change and after one interval of the time to
- check for new mail has passed, the terminal's flag is turned to "on".
-
- Since it really isn't necessary to redraw anything unless new mail has
- actually been received, why not change ELM so that it won't redraw the
- whole screen just to update nothing?
-
- Thanks.
- --
- -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
- -- no NeXTmail please
-