>From: Curry Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: stability and speed of the dictionary
>Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:54:20 -0500
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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,
I would suggest checking your setup. I tried the above on a 233 MHz iMac with
160 MB RAM, and it takes 3 seconds for the description window to load for the
very first term clicked in a session. Quitting happens so quickly that I can't
time it.
Ted
