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From: arne@yc.estec.nl (Arne Lundberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Shape extension is slooooooooooooooow
Message-ID: <1064@esatst.yc.estec.nl>
Date: 23 Feb 90 21:36:39 GMT
References: <1990Feb21.120023.3919@axion.bt.co.uk> <9002221350.AA01037@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: arne@yc.estec.nl (Arne Lundberg)
Organization: ESTEC/YCV, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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In article <9002221350.AA01037@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes:
>
>    Shape under HP-UX is slow. Like it can take >
>    30 seconds to refresh xmh after pulling down a menu if the menubutton is
>    oval. Similarly with shaped icons.
>
>I just tried xmh against our topcat, and it might have been marginally slower
>than on my Sun 3/60, but certainly under 1 second.

I have also found the round buttons unuseably slow on my mono HP
9000/340.  I have now found out that if I start the server with -bs -su
to disable Backing Store and Save Unders the speed becomes much more
reasonable?

Could this be the reason for this apperant disagreement?
Is there any reason for backing store or saveunders to interact with SHAPEd
windows?

-- Arne Lundberg