> Second question: yarn95 seems to scroll much slower than yarnx. Anyone else
> noticed this?
Yes, screen updates are noticeably slower than in yarnx. When I
tested Chris' pre-release, some months ago, I told him so. He
couldn't really put his finger on any problem. The "feature" is
most prominent when reading mail and news, not so much in the
highlighted line in the opening screen.
I will quote a few lines from a conversation that Chris and I had
when first testing Yarn95 (I hope Chris don't mind ...)
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>3) Screen updates are quite slow, considerably slower than with 0.85.
>Screens take considerably longer to build, you can see the screen build up
>(and I'm using a DX4 - 100MHZ with a 2MB DRAM Diamond Video Card, so believe
>me: I know the difference ;) Scrolling up and down in articles or messages
>causes the top and bottom lines of the screen to scramble a bit (not
>permanently, but nonetheless visible), like they're tripping over one another.
This puzzles me. I've spent considerable time tuning the screen I/O to work on
my machine to the point where it has slightly cleaner than the code I
originally ported.
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> Finally, there's a mouse cursor in yarn95, that isn't present in yarnx.
> It doesn't seem to do anything, though. Can anyone shed light as to why
> it's there, if it *does* control functions, and if not, how to get rid of it?
[from the conversation, again]
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>Oh, one more thing: I have the mouse pointer (block) within Yarn, but as I'm
>not able to perform any function with it, it's in the way a bit. I'd much
>rather lose it instead of having to push it into a corner ;)
I see it now. (I have a 17 in monitor, so I use Yarn in a 80x50 window. I never
even looked at it full screen. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll see what I
can do...
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Maybe Chris can provide an update on these subjects.
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