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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
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Subject: Re: System Disk 3.2
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Date: 1 Sep 88 15:11:00 GMT
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    Date:  1 September 1988 02:57 edt
    From:  lakesys!jason at CSD1.MILW.WISC.EDU (Jason)
    Subject:  Re: System Disk 3.2

    > Saw a mention that there is a version 3.2 of the GS System Disk.  Does
    > anyone know what the changes from 3.1 are?  is it even legit?

              3.2 is definatly (excuse misspelling - it's very late) legit. The
    biggest "user-noticeable" change is the menu cache: The first time you pull
    down a menu after it's been changed, it's slow, like it was before. From
    there on out (or until it gets changed again), the menu drops down pretty
    quickly... There's also a sound compression tool, and some other stuff I
    can't remember at the moment (remember, it's late!).

              The "non-legit" thingie floating around at this point is the "leaked"
    beta version of GS/OS (which quite definitely exists...).

              Jason

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Tnx to those who responded to my original query about 3.2.  This one
response prompts another question -- does the menu acceleration
(caching) only work with Apple's menus (e.g., in the Finder) or does it
also work with other applications that use the Toolbox?  I'm interested
because WordPerfect (2.1 beta) for the GS is using more and more of the
built-in toolbox routines but unfortunately because it is doing so some
things actually work slower (and some funcionality is lost) than when
they were rolling their own.  In particular, the menus used to be drawn
from top to bottom, but now that they are also using "pop out" as well
as "pull down" menus they for some reason have to be drawn bottom to
top, which, believe it or not at least psychologically slows things down
noticeably since you have to wait for the whole menu is drawn before you
can slide the mouse down to the item you want; when they are drawn top
to bottom you can start sliding the mouse down as fast as your hand will
go..

TMPLee@Dockmaster.ARPA