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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Twilight, GShrinkit, crash....
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.034330.4274@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 03:43:30 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Did you read the dox? Twilight has a 'never sleep' region, the bottom 8 lines
of the screen. I've never had it crash on return from an unwanted blank (except
once when I waited till the end of the SoundSmith .95 title song without moving
the mouse).

The first thing I think they should do is only count time while the system
is taking events. This eliminates unwaanted blanking during long copies and
so on. The second is to find some way of allowing programs to keep running
while the blanker does its thing. I am pretty sure this can be done, but I
am not sure it can be done 100% according to Apple's documentation.

BTW, Twilight is $10. That ain't too hefty.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu