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- From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: available seamless window?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.154854.27598@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 15:48:54 GMT
- References: <18f54cINN2br@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
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- In article <18f54cINN2br@agate.berkeley.edu>, shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
- > ok, i just want to get some termnologies straight....
- >
- > seamless windows is the ability to run windows programs in their
- > own little window session right?
- [deleted some lines]
- > if what i just described above is correct, then why is everyone complaining
- > about seamless windows not available on 3rd party drivers? i'm using
- > a tseng et400 based board w/ the driver, proii8.zip running everything at
- > 1024X768X256 (os/2 and windows) and i can do the above just fine????
- >
- > is there something i'm not seeing here or ignorant of? or is my definition
- > of seamless windows just plain wrong???
- >
- > btw: if what i describe is correct, why is the 2nd and 3rd windows programs
- > so slow in loading up when I do it? (i remember a couple hundred posts
- > back, someone said that the 2nd and 3rd loads should be faster because
- > the essentials were already in memory.)
- >
- > david shy
- > shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
- Your definition of "seamless" is just plain wrong. :-)
- Seamless windows is when windows programs runs on the os/2 desktop, side by side
- with the os/2 programs.
- You have been running your programs on separate windows desktops, wich is
- not seamless. The reason that the second and third win programs took so long
- time to start, is that you run them on separate desktops. If you run all
- your windows programs either seamless or on the same windows desktop, then
- the second and third applications will load much faster. Everything else will
- probably speed up too, because you won't be allocating a lot of MB for each
- windows kernel.
- An easy way to run more windows programs from the same desktop is to start the
- second program from the windows desktop instead of from the os/2 desktop.
- Windows programs have a setting called "separate session". Using this will
- make sure that a windows program won't be bothered by bugs in other windows
- programs, but you get the overhead of running one kernel per program.
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