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From: nm@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Nicolas Mercouroff)
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Subject: Re: WORD 4.0 with AfterDark and MultiFinder
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.162639.2147@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:26:39 GMT
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In article <1991Feb20.021041.4242@mentorg.com> bruceh@mentorg.com (Bruce Holm) writes:
>I got a problem that I would appreciate any help on.
>
>Under Multifinder, I boot MS Word 4.0.  I also have the INIT called After Dark v2.x.
>If I type in a bunch of stuff (not sure this is a requirement to see this problem)
>and then go off and do something else (not on the computer), AD then takes over and
>saves my screen.  Some time later (10+ minutes) I come back and try to do something
>in the Word session.  Nothing happens.  At first I though that the machine had hung
>but if I click the mouse a bunch (cursor does respond to mouse movement) after a
>while (a minute or so) the application finally wakes up and plays the queued up
>events that I did trying to wake it up.
>
>Has anyone else seen this strange behavior?
>
>As far as I can tell, the combination is Word 4, MultiFinder 6.0.5, AD 2.x set
>to Saturi (sp?) and with a password.  I have a Mac IIci with 5Mb RAM.
>
>Help.
>
>--Bruce

I had the same problem when I tried the "Satori" animation of After Dark 2.?
on a Mac LC (256 colors + PseudoFPU). 

I think that the problem comes from the computation time for each "cycle" of
Satori, which could be huge (~ 1 minute if you don't have a REAL FPU). As
After Dark waits until a cycle is finished to check for any events and
wake up the Macintosh, all the events you induce (clicks, keystrokes) are 
queued up.

Conclusion : either change the animation in After Dark, or admire the
gorgeous "paintings" of Satori for a while when you wait for your Mac to wake
up.

-Nicolas.