Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/29/00:17:14
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<Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 971028164323 DOT 1604C-100000 AT posaune DOT hrz DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>, Robert
Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net> writes:
>On 25 Oct 1997, PDennis736 wrote:
>
>> When running Rhide in a Dos box I find that any keyboard use involving the
>> Alt key becomes extremely slow. For example if pressing Alt+Tab there is a
>> delay before anything happens. This occurs on all windows applications
>> while Rhide is running and also applies to menu access keys (eg Alt+F for
>> the file menu) in all windows applications. The delay is very variable,
>
>What version of RHIDE you are using? If it is 1.3 then disable the
>'Show free memory' option from the preferences and see if this helps.
Of course I should have said that I'm using RHIDE Version 1.4 (Sep 30 1997). I
did try the 'Show free memory' option without it making any difference.
However I have investigated a little and discovered that the problem is not
with RHIDE per se, but rather it will affect any DOS program that sits in a
tight loop waiting for keyboard input using the bios to check without waiting:
const DELAY = 10000;
while (bioskey(1) == 0)
for (unsigned n = 0; n < 10000; d++);
interestingly, on my system if I set DELAY to be 60 or less then there is no
slowdown at all, but go to 100 and immediately I will have to wait up to 10
seconds for menus to activate in other windows applications.
Obviously a problem in Windows 95 or my setup at least, so I'll have to try a
more appropriate group if I can be bothered. Perhaps I should be thankful
that's *all* that's wrong with my Configuration :-)
Phil
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