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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Re: These 'acur' resources, am I missing something...
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Date: 27 Dec 90 05:07:11 GMT
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Nieminen Tero writes in a message to All

NT> I remember thet the cursor animation was somehow documented in 
NT> the MPW manual (both Pascal and C). Theese MPW languages have 
NT> routines to use these animated cursors also. I used animated 
NT> "busy" cursor in one program and if I remember correctly I used 
NT> the MPW Pascal library routines. As I remember it there's only 
NT> one catch: They use global memory so they cannot be used in DAs.

What most people don't realize is that cursor animation can slow down a 
program
by 20 to 90% (if it is totally without disk I/O).

Time the routine with and without cursor animation and see when the 
performance
starts to noticibly degrade. You may need to modify just how often your beach
ball spins per widget processed.

Lawson
 

 

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