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From: jacob@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Jacob L. Cybulski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: HC 2.0 sloowwwwwiiiiing down
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.034046.8865@latcs2.lat.oz.au>
Date: 23 Apr 91 03:40:46 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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I've discovered a very unusual HC 2.0 phenomena.
Whenever I run a script which does not require
any mouse interaction for a long time, Hypercard
slowly forgets it needs executing. After a while
it nearly stops. First I thought it must be the
Multi Finder effect, but exactly the same happened
while running under Finder.

The funny thing happens when I start moving the
mouse wildly, you can see a real improvement in
performance!

Any ideas? Note I am running HC 2.0 on a portable
which may do some weird things but never affected
any other of my applications.

I am not sure if this is of any relevance, but if you
create a new button and watch its marching ants for
a while they slow down a while and then stop, same
as my non-interactive script.

Is it a bug? Is it a feature? It is very annoying!

Jacob