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mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) writes:

>jasonb@cs.uwa.edu.au (Jason S Birch) writes:

>>The "chooser" gadget at the top of the settings window also locks my
>>machine up a lot. I just tried again, disabling all non-standard stuff
>>in my bootup, and the first time I selected it five times, choosing
>>different pages, before the machine locked, while the second time it
>>locked straight away.

>Hmm. Doesn't happen here.

I can get it to lock up almost without fail. It makes changing
preferences a rather painful process. :-/ I don't think there are even
any Enforcer hits (LED doesn't flash and no sound, but I can't be sure
as I have to run it locally and not through the serial port).

>>I've found, however, and I suspect ClassAct is at fault (several of the
>>programs in the CA demo on Aminet crashed my machine, too).

>This is a CA gadget. Hmm. Are you sure that you do not have an old
>version of ClassAct installed somewhere else ? 

I did, but the Install script successfully overwrote all the gadgets
(but not, curiously, all the images; I had to manually update two, but
perhaps they were the same version).

>If not, what Kickstart
>do you use ?

40.70.

[...]

>Strange. When I use AWeb I can scroll and click, even enter text into
>forms while the page is loaded.

[...]

>Again strange. I can abort any transfer (although many transfers are
>backgrounded and I need the network window to abort them).

[...]

>Doesn't happen here. If I move back and forth this works as if the
>pages are loaded from the net, except that there is no network activity.

[...]

>Since we are using the same AWeb there must be a difference. Did you
>ever try it without Executive ? The scheduler might have some significant
>influence on the behaviour of multithreaded applications.

You're right, it was because of Executive. I rebooted without it and
suddenly it started working the same as IBrowse, even following links
in part-loaded pages while the .html was still loading just like
IBrowse does. Unfortunately the whole machine became sluggish while it
was processing (boy, it's really easy to notice the difference when
you're not running Executive!). Perhaps the author could work on his
multithreading a little to make it Executive-friendly, like IBrowse
is? Is he relying on the tasks to be at certain priorities? (IBrowse
by default starts the threads at -1, but that is settable via the
preferences and certainly works while Executive is moving priorities
around.)

One other thing I noticed - when typing into a string gadget on a
form, the whole border of the gadget is redrawn with each keypress. I
presume this is also a CA problem. Oh, and also, the last demo of
IBrowse supports AS225r2 (I know you were complaining about this,
Michael) but I haven't been able to get it to work yet (works fine
under AmiTCP4.0 demo, fails to make any network connections under
AS225r2, with or without renaming the http.library as indicated).
I'd be curious to know if anyone else has got it working.

>                                Michael van Elst
>Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de

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