Re: ersatz autosave...?

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

 Thanks Carl. I thought that the flicker might be part of a
 larger matter that you would not be able to repair. As I
 said, that's ok. I have deleted the DO FF from the EF frame.
 I cannot tell if that makes a difference yet, because I have
 to work with the file for a bit longer than I have since making
 the change. If it behaves in the expected fashion, I won't
 trouble the list. So you can assume that it is ok to delete
 DO FF.

 Again, many thanks as always.

 M.

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On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Carl Distefano wrote:

>
> Reply to note from "M.W. Poirier"  Sun, 06
> Mar 2005 09:43:14 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > Your modification works. The only thing that I notice is that
> > when the save takes place in a footnote, the screen flickers
> > (maybe "refreshes itself" would be a better way of describing
> > what happens) for a second or so. This does not happen when in
> > the body of a text.
>
> I've done my best to minimize the flicker, Maben, but there's no way
> to avoid it altogether. Whenever you SAve a file with a footnote
> window open, Editor unceremoniously closes the window, switching
> focus back to the main file, before the file is written to disk.
> This behavior is built in; the best Ersatz can do is work around it.
> The workaround is to record the screen appearance of the footnote
> window before the SAve and restore the window after the SAve. Even
> though Ersatz applies func DX to freeze the display while this
> happens, the closing and reopening of the window may be fleetingly
> visible. On a slower machine you may see the screen jump or blink;
> on my fast machine it's barely noticeable.
>
> The flicker could be further minimized with a small and, I believe,
> benign change to frame EF, which you can try if you like. (Delete
> the single occurrence of "DO FF ", then issue LOADHELP.)
> If we see no side effects over time (and I've seen none in my
> initial testing), perhaps Robert, the author of EF, would be willing
> to make this change permanent.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
>
>