Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!venera.isi.edu!jas
From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: NISUS Macro latency
Message-ID: <14200@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 18:05:54 GMT
Sender: news@venera.isi.edu
Distribution: comp
Organization: USC-ISI
Lines: 36


I'm having this problem with Nisus that may be a "feature."  Nisus
seems to lag a bit when you are typing real fast, etc.  It seems to
lag so that your typing doesn't get slowed.

My problem:

This also happens with macros.  I can invoke a macro and start
typing, and the macro has yet to "kick in."

The deal is this:  I want to write a macro that uses styles to set a
series of "titles" for my scriptwriting.  This requires something like
this:

If I hit Numeric pad 1:

<cr><---------------------------blank line
		FRED<-----------Insert the NAME style and type "FRED", then
				hit <return>
	<cursor><---------------Insert the DIALOG style
and wait for input.

I want to hit 1, then start typing, but if I do, I have to wait for
the macro to get around to entering all of the text, which may or may
not end up before the dialogf as needed.

Is there any way to tell Nisus to complete a macro before reading the
keybuffer or whatever this feature is doing?

jas

--
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jeffrey A. Sullivan		| Senior Systems Programmer
jas@venera.isi.edu		| Information Sciences Institute
jas@isi.edu   DELPHI: JSULLIVAN	| University of Southern California