CPU running hot

2003-12-25 Thread Neville Smythe
I have been concerned that the fan on my PowerBook runs continuously when developing with RunRev (v2.1.2 under Mac OS 10.3). Tracked it down to a VERY bad bug... Try this. Open the Activity Monitor and start up the CPU monitor; open the Find & Replace window in RunRev, and type anything into th

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-26 Thread Alex Rice
On Dec 25, 2003, at 6:42 PM, Neville Smythe wrote: and type anything into the search field so that the Find button pulsates And that button is the culprit right there. It's really OS X's fault, for making pulsating gumdrop eye candy that uses tons of CPU resources. (and it is the OS that's do

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-28 Thread JonathanC
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Neville Smythe wrote: > and type anything into the search field so that the Find button > pulsates ... The CPU immediately jumps to running flat out and > stays that way To which Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Fri, 26 Dec 2003, replied: > And that button is the culprit

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To which Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Fri, 26 Dec 2003, replied: > >> And that button is the culprit right there. >> It's really OS X's fault, >> for making pulsating gumdrop eye candy >> that uses tons of CPU resources. >> (and it is the OS that's doing the render

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Dec 28, 2003, at 3:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not so sure. I just tried the Search dialog boxes in Lotus Notes 6, Word X and TextEdit 1.2, ALL of which have pulsating, blue Default buttons, and NONE of them made the CPU monitor hit the maximum the way that Revolution does. I remember r

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Rice wrote: > On Dec 28, 2003, at 3:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm not so sure. I just tried the Search dialog boxes in Lotus Notes 6, >> Word X and TextEdit 1.2, ALL of which have pulsating, blue Default >> buttons, and NONE of them made the CPU monitor hit the maximum the way >>

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-28 Thread Neville Smythe
On 27/12/2003, at 4:00 AM, Alex Rice wrote: and type anything into the search field so that the Find button pulsates And that button is the culprit right there. It's really OS X's fault, for making pulsating gumdrop eye candy that uses tons of CPU resources. (and it is the OS that's doing the re

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-28 Thread Rodney Tamblyn
I've tried it myself and can confirm Neville is correct. I just want to add another vote of urgency to this topic: I have been very concerned about how hot my powerbook has been getting while using Revolution. It's normal for the fan to come on after several hours of operation, but with Revolu

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-28 Thread Neville Smythe
wow, this list really runs hot!. Got back from Xmas holidays to read my mail, sent off a reply to Alex's response to my original email on this subject, and then in came the later digests with all the replies and explanations which have occurred since. Thanks everyone! (It's still not acceptabl

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-28 Thread Alex Rice
On Dec 28, 2003, at 6:09 PM, Neville Smythe wrote: No sorry Alex, the pulsating button is NOT the problem - that doesn't take very much CPU time at all (Apple wouldn't make that mistake, which would be entirely unacceptable) GUI performance on older hardware has been a common complaint since M

Re: CPU running hot

2003-12-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Neville Smythe wrote: > > On 27/12/2003, at 4:00 AM, Alex Rice wrote: > >>> and type anything into the search field so that the Find button >>> pulsates >> >> And that button is the culprit right there. It's really OS X's fault, >> for making pulsating gumdrop eye candy that uses tons of CPU r