I just did a test. Starting 5 downloads used up 11 more megs of virtual mem.
-cb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [Furthur] downloading dialog boxes sugestion > Alot of programs have one main dialog window, and then any multiple other > windows it spawns stay within this one main window. So when you minimize > them they just minimize down to the bottom of the main dialog window, rather > than being outside of it and minimizing to your system tray. This could > clean up the clutter, but probaby wouldn't help in the RAM issue. I know > Gnucleus does this, and I think I remember reading Furthur was partly based > on Gnucleus or something? > > Jeremy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike Wren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Chris Bick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:20 AM > Subject: Re: [Furthur] downloading dialog boxes sugestion > > > > This has been mentioned at is on the to-do list... probably implemented by > > a checkbox in the config menu... "Show download popup windows" > > > > > > Wren > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Chris Bick wrote: > > > > > Instead of popping dialog boxes up for each download how about let the > users > > > decide if they want to see them. Here is a couple reasons why we might > want > > > this. > > > 1. Each dialog takes up memory and if you have ten download going that > is > > > going to eat a lot of memory. > > > 2. I prefer not to have so many dialogs windows for one application. > > > > > > Here is one way it could be done. > > > > > > In the partials page when you double click a partial entry the > downloading > > > dialog pops up or the state of the partial. On that dialog is a button > to > > > get the info that you get now if you double click. In the future, all > this > > > could be solved by using popup menus on partials view. > > > > > > Or > > > > > > Allow people to close the downloading dialogs without canceling the > > > download. > > > > > > -cb > > > > > > > > > ------------ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ------------ > > > The Furthur Development List > > > Questions, Comments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://cyberial.com/furthur > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > ------------ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ------------ > > The Furthur Development List > > Questions, Comments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://cyberial.com/furthur > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ------------ > The Furthur Development List > Questions, Comments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://cyberial.com/furthur > -------------------------------------------------- > ------------ [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] ------------ The Furthur Development List Questions, Comments: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cyberial.com/furthur --------------------------------------------------
