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From: garye@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Gary_Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Positional note-taking
Message-ID: <1440005@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 89 17:09:53 GMT
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Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
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> Starting with a blank page, one can ask for a new scrolling
> text subwindow, place and size it anywhere in the main window, and
> begin entering text.  Should one enter more text than fits in the
> original size of the subwindow, the scrolling comes in to play.  
> 
> Rick Chimera
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The problem with this, in my view, is it's not 'real-time'.  I don't know about
others' X Window systems, but mine takes many, many seconds to create and size
a window.  I just tried it, and, admittedly, my system is busy and memory-shy,
but it took 35 seconds to ask the system to create a window, have it appear,
position it, and size it.  When I'm talking on the phone, I need to jot down a
note in probably 3 seconds at the most or I'll lose the next comment.

Gary Ericson - Hewlett-Packard, Workstation Systems Division
               phone: (408)746-5098  mailstop: 101N  email: gary@hpdsla9.hp.com