Re: frequent polling in LyX (plus LyX under DRT screenshots)

2002-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 09:48:22AM +1000, Amir Michail wrote: > You can see some preliminary results here in the following screenshots: > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~amichail/lyx8.png Nice ! > BTW, could someone tell me if the functions shown in the pictures > are particularly relevant to th

Re: frequent polling in LyX (plus LyX under DRT screenshots)

2002-09-01 Thread Juergen Vigna
Amir Michail wrote: > I also found another problem with getting rid of cursor blinking. > If you type a sentence and press return, the cursor will not appear > for a while until it is told to blink on. By then, the after picture > has already been taken, so cursor tracking is broken. So it's not

Re: frequent polling in LyX (plus LyX under DRT screenshots)

2002-09-01 Thread Amir Michail
Hi, Perhaps a configure flag could be used to build LyX in a way that works well under DRT? Although the polling change I mentioned (and others) may not be bug free, they do seem to get LyX working under DRT. You can see some preliminary results here in the following screenshots: http://www

Re: frequent polling in LyX

2002-08-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | The problem is not that the polling is slowing other programs down, | but rather that it is presenting problems for our design recovery tool. | | I tried getting rid of this frequent polling by changing the code | in WorkArea::WorkArea as follo

Re: frequent polling in LyX

2002-08-29 Thread ZhiCong Leo Liang
Then what does this line do ??? I get confused... cheers Leo On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Amir Michail wrote: > Hi, > > The problem is not that the polling is slowing other programs down, > but rather that it is presenting problems for our design recovery tool. > > I tried getting rid of this frequent p

Re: frequent polling in LyX

2002-08-29 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:33:00AM +1000, Amir Michail wrote: > ...fl_add_free(FL_ALL_FREE, ...)... > > to > > ..fl_add_free(FL_INPUT_FREE,...)... Ah. If this really doesn't cause regressions, we shuold definitely do this thanks john -- "Take the ideas you find useful. Try not to get h

Re: frequent polling in LyX

2002-08-29 Thread Amir Michail
Hi, The problem is not that the polling is slowing other programs down, but rather that it is presenting problems for our design recovery tool. I tried getting rid of this frequent polling by changing the code in WorkArea::WorkArea as follows: ...fl_add_free(FL_ALL_FREE, ...)... to ..fl_

Re: frequent polling in LyX

2002-08-29 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Amir Michail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, > | We have noticed that LyX performs frequent | polling. In particuar, C_WorkArea_work_area_handler | is called multiple times per second. > | Is this frequent polling necessary for updating the display? | Or is the display updated immediately when