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Article #3343Re: Copland merely shifts the burden to the programmer
From: Karl Thomas
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 03:40
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 03:40
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christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes: >In article <313CA521.13D8@mediamatic.nl>, Pascal Haakmat <pascal@mediamatic.nl> writes: >|> Gregory L Hansen wrote: >|> > Well... if the Blue Box crashes and is restarted, chances are the program >|> > will receive a restart Blue Box event. >|> Then the blue box would have to restart all the applications that >|> were running at the time the blue box crashed. >No. The (Copland-savvy) applications only need to recreate their user >interfaces. Probably slower than doing a "Hide <application>" >followed by a "Show <application>", but faster than quitting and >restarting the application. It shouldn't be that much slower. Think about it, when a Mac app is brought forward from a hidden state it has to redraw the screen, any pallettes that it might use and the menubar anyway.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nyx.cs.du.edu!not-for-mail From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Copland merely shifts the burden to the programmer Date: 11 Mar 1996 20:40:24 -0700 Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept. Message-ID: <4i2rn8$74l@nyx.cs.du.edu> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <4glem9$li5@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <4gsrip$bp7@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <31349BAA.6418@mediamatic.nl> <4h4qir$dpj@nuke.csu.net> <313CA521.13D8@mediamatic.nl> <4hl2q1$l1v@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nyx.nyx.net X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV)