For KFrank re: "restoring view message"

holmgrn@ibm.net
Wed, 14 Jun 95 09:56:51

> Bob-- that message that keeps popping up on your screen telling you to press
> Ctrl_Shift+V to restore the view is a system message put there by the
> programmer who did the full view because he feared that users would get into
> that mode and not know how to get out of it. He set it up to re-display when
> no other message was active.
>
> Apparently you have your default MB set to 1, which displays system messages
> in message boxes. If you change that to 0 that message will simply appear
> benignly on the status line. Obviously this needs to be looked at so as not
> to be so annoying when MB is 1, since many users may choose that anyway.
>
> K.

Kenny, if MB ever equalled 1, it was the first thing I changed two years
ago. This is a performance issue, not an MB issue; and that's why I sent
you benchmark numbers. Here they are again. The error msg is not so
"benign"! Each time Xy puts it up the whole system takes a huge hit. First
with, then without, msg \688 (the timed routine simply issues 1000
keystrokes):

XyWin XP 14.65 secs with default UI=1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0
XyWin WG 14.81 secs
XyWin WZ 22.19 secs

XyWin XP 3.85 secs with default UI=0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1
XyWin WG 3.96 secs
XyWin WZ 5.91 secs

Surely your programmer understands that the ONLY way for a user to get into
this position is very deliberately (I don't think one can do it through the
menus, not UI=1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0); so obviously users can find their
own way back out of the black hole if that's what they want. In any case,
it is inaccurate to state that \688 only goes up if the PRline isn't
otherwise in use! It goes up on *every* *single* *keystroke*, and thereby
wipes out any existing PRompt. The whole thing is simply a mistake, is all
it is. Let's dump it and move on to testing your OS/2 version. How's it
coming? You sly sly fox you, our faith turns out to be warranted at last!

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Robert J. Holmgren
holmgrn@ibm.net
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