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In article <1k6nvgINNqll@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
ig06@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Goetz) writes:
>Graham Allan wrote:
>
>>FontManager depends on a module called SuperSample. The SWI numbers for
>>this module changed at some point, so if you are using a new fontmanager
>	     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>That was bull's eye, Graham !

Thanks, it's nice to get something right occassionally!

>OK, now ? new ?
>
>Some apps, when loaded, cause noticeable flicker just when you for instance
>put the pointer over their icon bar icons - not the sort of '40 Hz flicker',
>it looks more like traveling strips or waves. It was especially bad with
>the green devil - a 50 Hz green/greener monitor I used earlier. Now I have
>a multisync (second hand Eizo 9070S Flexscan and am sitting on bread and water) but the flicker hasn't gone completely and is not to oversee when the
>machine had't run for long. On the whole the picture is not as stable as on
>my brother's PC (doesn't stop him playing !Tertis day and night)

You know, I've noticed something similar to this, which is very strange.
I've never seen any actual flicker on the monitor, but I have noticed that
the apparent load on the CPU changes as you move the pointer over
different icons or windows (and there's no particular reason for the
applications to suddenly receive extra wimp events when this happens -
certainly not for icon bar icons, anyway). You can see this if you're
running something like !Usage; you can see the CPU load change. You can
also sort-of hear it in the CPU noise which breaks through to the audio
system. Often wondered what's going on here...

While on the subject of CPU monitors, does anyone use Ran Mokady's RISC OS
3 CPU monitor? Sometimes when it is running and open, the window manager
seems to decide to do a complete screen update, for no apparent reason.
Strangely this only happens when there are a few filer windows also open;
if you close these, the strange behaviour stops. 

I don't suppose there's any later and more optimised version of this
program around now? It's a nice gadget, but you don't want to use it too
much of the time - a usage monitor which itself consumes 20%-odd of the
CPU (on an ARM3) is a bit much! 

Graham