The new product is a major undertaking for us, and it is a fairly significant
departure from previous products in a number of ways, without abandoning any of
the current functionality.
There has been some recent talk here about true collapsible outlining, and I
hope that will be part of that release. The lower level functions to accomplish
it are in place, and since even the 16 bit version is 32 bit internally, we can
manipulate large chunks of text in memory.
While this new product has much interesting new functionality, there seems to be
several tradeoffs that I am not sure will be pleasing to everyone, and so I am
going to mention them here to see what kind of reaction I get.
First, it appears that the load time for the product is materially longer than
current XyWin. While it is not too noticeable on newer, faster machines, it
could be annoying if you load and unload the product a lot. Performance once
the product is loaded is as good if not better than current XyWin.
Second, and predictably, the disk footprint is larger. I would not be surprised
if a full install took 15-18 MB.
Thoughts?
K.