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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Moire seems "herky-jerky" now...
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Date: 24 Aug 89 16:33:36 GMT
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In article <45133334.1a5bf@moth.engin.umich.edu> 
mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes:
> don't get as much time.  For all intents and purposes, screen savers 
work as
> background applications.  So in short, Finder and Word 4.0 aren't giving
> enough time to background applications.

I haven't looked at Moire, but based on my experiences with the screen 
saver I wrote, I would say that the problem is exactly the opposite.  Most 
screen savers seem to hook into GetNextEvent (or the GetnextEvent hook) 
which isn't called as often if the frontmost application called 
WaitNextEvent and sleeps.  So I think the problem is that the Finder and 
Word 4.0 are being good citizens and giving background applications the 
maximum CPU time.  The result is that GetNextEvent isn't called as often.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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