On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:08:36 -0400 Mike Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> steve wrote: > > > Whenever I go to Choose Continent->North America the module and all of > > enlightenment freezes completely. I have not debugged at all. I have > > noticed this behaviour for last two days. > > > After updating from CVS I noticed this too. It looks like there's just > too many entries in the North America menu for the menu system to > handle. enlightenement will jump to 100% CPU -- it may come back in a > few minutes, or it may not. If I select North America, and then move my > mouse to the right in such a way that I move down the N.A. menu without > selecting any of the cities, I am able to get down to "New York", and if > I select ONLY New York, I see a lot of menu items, but around the > D-entries, the menu display is corrupted entirely. I'll just leave it > set to Bermuda for now. basically there are limts on menu sizes - once a menu gets about 32000 pixels high or wide (32768 or bigger) it will have bit problems. this is mostly due to x as you can only access the first 32767x32767 co-ords of a window, and a widnow has a limit of 65536x65536 pixels (it uses signed shorts for co-ords and unsigned shots for sizes). also thefact that e has to RENDER a menu widnow TAHT BIG will mean it eats up some cpu. basically a menu is the WRONG UI element to use for such massive lists. its just bad bad bad bad UI design. i knew e17's menus woudlnt cope too well with sreens and screens of items. i dont expect them to really have that many. the solution is to put such a selector in a different place - like a dialog box with a scrollable list of items. mind you - there are no ready made dialogs like this available yet. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
