Re: Slow drawing of message lists

2003-08-31 Thread Dan Webb
>Some fonts are very slow to draw in bold on Mac OS X, especially Geneva. >Try Lucida, Helvetica or Verdana instead. > >Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering I'm using Verdana already, and I've tried switching to other fonts. I tried turning off anti-aliasing for fonts, and it's still takes about one s

Re: Slow drawing of message lists

2003-08-31 Thread Don V. Zahniser
Just for comparison - In Mac OS 8.6 I can see a very slight difference using fonts that have bitmaps for the size I have chosen (faster), compared to fonts that are only available in TrueType (slower). I might be able to convince myself that a font that has a bold bitmap seems slightly faster t

Re: Slow drawing of message lists

2003-08-31 Thread PowerMail Engineering
Kjell Olausson wrote: >> It actually isn't related to how many message in the folder; it's how >> many are displayed in the window. A window of about 40 messages takes >> about one second to draw for me. > >Could there be a bad font involved in this behaviour? Or are you using a >custom font to

Re: Slow drawing of message lists

2003-08-31 Thread Kjell Olausson
Dan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derry Thompson, 1:07 PM, 8/30/03: > > >I have folders with several thousands of messages in then, they draw > >instantly. The only time I see any noticible slow down is when I'm using > >the video part of iChat. > > > >G4 500Mhz Powerbook, 10.2.6. > > Try thi

Re: Slow drawing of message lists

2003-08-31 Thread Dan Webb
Derry Thompson, 1:07 PM, 8/30/03: >I have folders with several thousands of messages in then, they draw >instantly. The only time I see any noticible slow down is when I'm using >the video part of iChat. > >G4 500Mhz Powerbook, 10.2.6. Try this: Click on one of your folders, mash down on the "

Re: Slow drawing of message lists

2003-08-30 Thread Derry Thompson
Dan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 30/8/03 6:51 pm >PowerMail takes a long time to draw a list of email messages. For >instance, when I switch to a folder that shows about 40 email messages, >it takes roughly one second to draw it. Are there any plans to speed it >up? Is there anything I can do

Slow drawing of message lists

2003-08-30 Thread Dan Webb
PowerMail takes a long time to draw a list of email messages. For instance, when I switch to a folder that shows about 40 email messages, it takes roughly one second to draw it. Are there any plans to speed it up? Is there anything I can do to speed it up? I've tried displaying only a minimal