Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

571.0. "How to make pullrights faster?" by TEXAS::ROSE () Mon Apr 10 1989 15:52

    PROBLEM: DECwindows pullrights come up too slowly on my 9 Mb GPX. For
    example, in DECwrite the slowness makes changing fonts and creating
    elements uncomfortable. I've wound up defining keyboard macros for the
    more common fonts and and elements in the document.
    
    POSSIBLE SOLUTION: When writing my own pullrights, I came across a
    possible explanation for this slowness. The pullright menu entries are
    widgets, not gadgets. This means a menu with many pullrights will be
    slow to create (and take up a lot of server memory with windows).
    
    Pullrights are so common that a specialized menu package using only one
    widget per menu would seem worthwhile. On the other hand, maybe by now
    good performance on a GPX is no longer a worthwhile goal, and
    DECwindows applications are being written to run on a PVAX as minimum.
    
    Comments?

    V2 has (in the DECtoolkit development group) pulldown menu entry
    gadgets.  When applications use them for V2, they will turn 2
    widgets into one gadget per "pullright".
    
    Leo