Re: Problem with graphics view...?

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Patricia: It is hard for me to tell whether you are
 directing the questions below to me or to Robert, but
 I'll assume that it is to me. Please read the inter-
 polated comments. Thank you. MWP

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On Mon, 29 May 2006, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:

> Robert Holmgren wrote:
> > when I've tried to display Graphics while working in a window, my window would display the current page in Graphics, but the window would completely freeze
> No, the switch works OK in 9x too. Always has. Not that I do it often,
> because of that briefly blank screen, which gives me the heebie-jeebies.

 I agree. The switch from draft view to graphics view always
 worked well in Windows 9x for me too. And it also worked well
 under Windows XP on my desktop machine too. I only noticed a
 of a problem when I moved some of my work to the Thinkpad, but
 as I mentioned, that seems to be back to normal, ...although
 I have yet to figure out what caused the problem in the first
 place.

> > the more formatting or fonts in the file, the larger the task. Could
 the complexity of the files you're displaying be a factor?
> That occurred to me too (great minds think alike ). We know you're
> using notes. Footnotes or endnotes? How big are the files? How many
> notes (roughly) per page? If you let me know, and give me 1) the
> properties of the pif with which you launch Xy and 2) which printer
> driver you're using, I'll see if I can reproduce any of this on the XP
> box at the office. Of course, I'll be running off the thumb drive, which
> adds a further possible complication.
>
 I don't think that my initial problem had much to do with the
 completity of the file. My file was a straight forward file
 with only three footnotes. I've had much more complex files
 and this never happened. The EFN macro that, I think, Carl
 created, resolved many of the footnote issues I had in the
 past, ...about two years back.

 I don't launch XY4 from a pif. I go into DOS, and launch it the
 old-fashioned way. I find that more appropriate. As they say,
 to each his/her own in these matters. I am using one of the
 HP drivers. My printer is a LJ 1100, so it is which ever driver
 works with this printer. I think that I piked one of the later
 HP drivers. No, I'm wrong. It's HP LJIIP+. Maybe a later one
 would work as well. I have a memory stick too, but I never use
 it as a drive. I use it only to store and transport files. It
 seems to me that I read somewhere that using it as a drive was
 not recommended. BTW, it's a Kingston, 1 gig.

> It just struck me: you're running Xy 4 in a Window on XP? Do you have
> this jerky cursor problem that's been gone over and over here? If not,
> could you please tell us what make and model of PC you're running on?
> Maybe I was right the first time about a hardware component.
>
 I don't have the jurky cursor on my desktop, and to tell the
 truth, I never thought I had it on my new laptop until it began being
 discussed here. I then noticed a tiny, and I mean really tiny,
 delay. I am not even sure that what I am seeing is what some
 of you are "complaining" (sorry for the use of this word) about.

 My desktop was specially build for me. So it's a no-name, with two
 huge hard drives and the fastest processor I could get at the time,
 with a CD and DVD drive, etc. As I mentioned to some of you back
 when, it has one problem. My cursor slows done and freezes when
 I am connected to the net or to my e-mail account, which I manage
 with Pine. I keep on typing when it disappears, assess whether I
 have typed a line, place a hard return where I think it is appropriate,
 and move onto the next line. The typed line(s) eventually appear
 on the screen, ...often with a few errors, but not many, which I
 make an effort to correct. Of course, this never happens when
 I am operating on my own in the sense of not connected to the net or
 e-mail. I've learned to live with the problem, since I don't
 think that it is my machine that is the problem.

 My laptop is a IBM Thinkpad T42.

 MWP


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