On Tuesday, August 28, 2001, at 09:53 PM, use-revolution-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like a memory problem you are having. Do you have only 64 megs
or so? Using a big virtual memory allocation can be the problem as the
disk intensive switching of memory chunks can take some time. I usually
wait approx. .5 seconds or less when using the docs. But I have 384
megs with no vm. Just a thought.
-Mark
