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- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 05:23 BST-1
- From: ogal@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ofir Gal)
- Subject: Re: GEM apps, in general
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <memo.767699@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- >Ofir/Yat, what's happening with the Select All vote? Can you post a
- >date when the results are going to be announced, or what?
-
- No idea!!! Yat is not answering his mail, so I guess he's away.
-
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- millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu said:
- >
- >I'll have to get Interface some time. How much does it cost and who puts
- >it out?
-
- I think you can get it from Gribinif.
-
- >]last Tim Miller is talking some sense and we have to put up with this new
- >]waste of bandwidth.
- >
- >Which waste of bandwidth? Mine or theirs?
-
- Theirs.
-
- >
- >And, I really don't like your remark about me 'at last making some
- >sense'. If you ask me, I've always been making sense. I have good
-
- You should check some of your messages. But don't worry about it.
-
- >Bringing up one's toolkit is just fine. It's the 'mine is better than
- >yours' arguement that is the problem, although that isn't all bad in and
-
- I agree, Some discussion is OK, but it just got too much.
-
- >You CANNOT leave everything up to the user! If you did, the
- >configuration woule be hell with countless options that must users
-
- I agree again.
-
-
- warwick@cs.uq.oz.au said:
- >
- >This is a different issue. Graphics cards can perform screen-to-screen
- >blit operations much faster because they use on-chip acceleration. Blitting
- >mainmemory-to-mainmemory is usually pretty fast too. But blitting between
- >the RAM on a graphics card and mainmemory is the bottleneck I was talking
- >about.
-
- I know exactly what you mean. This can be shown clearly with GEMBench
- Blitting and VDI scrolling tests.
-
-
- warwick@cs.uq.oz.au said:
- >
- >This opens up a large relm of possibilities if this can become a common
- >feature of GEM applications:
- >
- >1. Point-to-type
- >2. Exit highlighting
- >3. Pointer-form change
- >4. Balloon help (ala Mac)
- >
- >Now, at first glance, many of us would say "NO!" to at least 3 of
-
- Exit highlighting is bad IMO. STraight FAX uses this trick, but I don't
- like it at all. I don't like or want point-to-type. 3 is fine and makes
- sense. I don't mind 4.
-
- Bye,
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