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From: roddi@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Roddi Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: quasi WB2.0 BUGS
Message-ID: <3877@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 26 Mar 91 02:32:48 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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Hi!
	I was at a developer friend's house a few days ago, playing with
WB 2.0.  While it is a huge advance over 1.3, I notices a few nasty things
happen when fooling around with 10-20 windows, all roughly stacked over each
other.
	First, the updates are SSLLLOOOOOOWWWWWWW - if I close/move/whatever
a window, I have to wait 10+ seconds for the mouse to unfreeze and the
update/redraw to finish.  It was this slow in 1.3, but I had hoped things
would have sped up under 2.0 (this is on a 68000 A2000 with lots of ram,
btw).  True, people normally fool around with 1-7 (say) windows, but this
is a nasty limitation.  Just out of interest, I tried the same thing on
a nasty 8MHz 68000 Mac Plus, and its performance (for window redrawing)
was MUCH BETTER - Not appreciably slower than when it was redrawing
just a couple of windows.  I would guess that the Mac uses a much smarter
algorithm - not only is it unquestionably MUCH faster, but I also don't
see poorly refreshed windows on the Mac as I do under WB 1.3 (sometimes).
	Also, when 2.0 was redrawing the windoes, it would often leave
vertical/horizontal 1 pixel wide/thick gaps when redrawing the window
borders (the box with the scroll bars) and the little rectangle around the
icons within the window.
	All in all, annoying but non-fatal bugs, but they do lower my
opinion of 2.0 - I still think the current Mac interfaces are slicker,
at least aesthetically, than 2.0 (but there is NO WAY I would give up
multitasking, CLI windows, and a GUI that runs in about 150K (once kickstart
is in ROM)).
	Any comment from the folks at Commodore?  (There's NO USE talking
to CBM Australia - biggest pack of losers I have ever seen - they're
still not on the Internet, though it has been in the pipeline for a LOOOONNNGGG
time).

Roddi.