Re: XYWin hogs CPU

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Harry

Harry Binswanger wrote:
> What do you mean by "console" here? A menu, or Xy formatted for Tame?
> Maybe a screen shot would be helpful.
The screen that you see when you launch XY4 under Tame (and when it
works) is what the author calls the Tame console. I can reproducibly
launch XY4 with Tame 5.0 and get this tame console, and behind it the
normal XY4 window that I would have seen if Tame was not there. It is
easy to see that both are running by calling a DIR or file, when both
windows become populated with the same data. This doesn't happen with
Tame 6.0, though I have a fair crop of other problems.
> Yes, but I *never* work in full screen mode, always in windowed. Can't
> see the attraction of full-screen: Tame gives you all the visual goodies
> you want (font size, spacing) in windowed and you still have access to
> all your other programs. And you can get the mouse pointer out of the
> way. Try windowed for a while, with 43 or 50 lines, and you'll never go
> back.
I've already tried using XY4 windowed and repeatedly gone back. This is
a matter of taste, but one of the wonders of XY for me (and for others
from comments I seem to recall on the message group) is that in full
screen mode it is the nearest thing on a computer to a sheet of paper in
a typewriter. There are absolutely no distractions. Once you run in
Windowed mode, distractions start to appear.
> > With Tame 6.0 (which I assume must be the same as your 5.1, though it
> > calls itself 6 on the website and when installed)
>
> No, 6.0 is a different thing. And 5.1 comes in 10 or so different versions.
Where does Tame 5.1 in any version come from? I can only download Tame
5.0 or Tame 6.0 rc9. Perhaps you could send me a copy of the last
version of Tame 5.1 you have and I'll see if I have any better luck with
that.
With Tame 6.0 if I set sl=43 and a similar setting in a Tame
configuration file I end up with full screen or a Tame console that is
43 lines long but for some reason XY sees less than 43 lines so that I
have a red line across the screen near the bottom. Whatever I try and
whatever combination of settings I use for anything other than 25 lines,
this happens. Only with Tame 5.0, with 50 lines, have I found a way to
evade this. Perhaps the Tame 5.1 versions perform better in this respect.
> I don't know what TextHeight=10 means or does.
TextHeight is the height of a letter in screen pixels. 10 pixels is
pretty small.


Paul