On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:23:16PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:01:06PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:21:41PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > > >>>>>>"Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > >>> I thought Abdel tested that with qt4.
> > > >
> > > >Abdelrazak> LyX-1.4/qt3 behaves exactly the same with this file.
> > > >
> > > >So this is a general problem with lyx-qt on windows, right?
> > > 
> > > I would rather say with lyx-mathed on windows.
> > 
> > I would more correctly say that it is a problem with the Qt library
> > implemented directly using the Windows API, as the Qt library which
> > goes through the X11 API does not have this problem, even if it runs
> > on Cygwin which in turn runs on top of Windows.
> 
> Qt4/Win does not use much of the Windows API. It basically does
> everything by itself and blits the result as pixmap to the widget.
> 
> > I have always stated that LyX/Qt/X11 is more snappy than LyX/Qt/Win.
> > But this is true for 1.4, as LyX 1.3, using the same Qt/Win version,
> > was indeed a little faster than LyX/Qt/X11.
> 
> Qt3/Win uses the native API.

LyX 1.5 was basically performing the same with both Qt3/Win and Qt4/Win.
So, from what you say, its poor performance is related to something that
is being done differently with respect to 1.3. Indeed, even using Qt/X11,
scrolling of the document attached to bug 2900 is difficult in 1.4 and 1.5,
as opposed to 1.3, where there is no problem.

-- 
Enrico

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