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- From: mheiskan@snakemail.hut.fi (Mika Heiskanen)
- Subject: Re: Built-in MENU grobs - accessible?
- In-Reply-To: fee@waikato.ac.nz's message of 6 Nov 92 09:18:25 +1300
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- References: <1992Nov6.091825.11984@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 06 Nov 92 17:00:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.091825.11984@waikato.ac.nz> fee@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >Surely these menu grobs are not generated each time they are displayed?
- >Or is the memory overhead of storing the grobs too much to pay for speed?
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- Internal commands that change menu pages etc all set a flag telling the
- display routine that the menu area display must be updated. Similar flags
- exist for status and stack displays. Thus yes, they really are generated
- again and again as they are displayed. That just isn't necessarily very
- often.
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