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From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Some WB2.0 Peeves
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.032545.7153@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 25 Jun 91 03:25:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: marlin.1991Jun25.032545.7153
References: <1991Jun23.210647.20152@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun24.000524.378@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <1991Jun24.000524.378@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>In article <1991Jun23.210647.20152@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>>
>>   My question is: why can't this be so on an Amiga?  With WB2.0 (or 1.3
>>or whatever), when you pull down a menu or drag a menu or icon or whatever,
>>all animation in motion on the current screen stops.  I guess I don't quite
>>understand why this has to be on a computer with such awesome animation as
>>an Amiga.  
>
>  It has nothing to do with processor power, it has to do with design.
> [stuff deleted explaining why]
>the current screen is affected. More often than not, I am irrated by
>programs that update the screen while a requester up, so menu's would
>probably be worse. Imagine a program outputting lots of text while you
>choosing a menu option, you'd have to let go of the menu so you can read the
>stuff before it scrolls off the window. Also, I use the right mouse
>button to pause scrolling! This is the #1 reason not to change it.

I find this LockLayer call very annoying.  If you are using WB to
copy files to a disk using the slow FFS (fu*cked/fraged file system), the
files are displayed in a window as they are copied.  Also I may be
formating a disk in another window.  Everything stops if you move a
window, or access a menu.  Put simply it sucks, and I hope it gets 
fixed sometime in the distant future (C= have more important things to
do I'm sure). (I know I could copy files with the quiet option, but
it's nice to know where you're up to)

BTW, Why on earth didn't C= come up with a decent file system? The FFS
is no better (I can't tell any difference) for floppies and is the
worst file system I have ever seen.  Having studied and implemented some
real file systems I'd like to know where C= copied their's from and
WHY?

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Colin Adams                                  
Computer Science Department                     James Cook University 
Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au               North Queensland
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