Curry,
I have an iMac as well, and it only takes about 2 seconds to open a term after clicking on it. And quitting is instantaneous for me.
I assume you're using Rev 1.0, right? How much RAM do you have?
And which iMac do you have... 333MHz or 450MHz?
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Curry
> Kenworthy
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: stability and speed of the dictionary
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>
> While RR is looking at ways for improving the documentation, could the
> Transcript dictionary stacks be simplified a bit, or altered
> to improve
> stability and the time it takes to access them?
>
> On my iMac, for the first term looked up in a session, it takes half a
> minute after clicking on the term in the index before the
> description window
> is finished loading. Often, the computer freezes during this
> time. (After
> the window loads successfully the first time, subsequent
> terms can be looked
> up during the session without any noticeable delay.)
>
> If this is the typical experience and not due to any problems
> in my own
> computer or installation, I think it would be nice to have a
> simplified
> dictionary term window that didn't take so long to load and
> perform so many
> activities while loading.
>
> Also, quitting Revolution on Mac takes a very long time, I'd
> guess as much
> as a minute! (But doesn't cause any crashes.) Otherwise, most
> features in
> Revolution are fairly quick.
>
> Curry Kenworthy
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