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Re: Mac Program Support [message #45259 is a reply to message #45256]

Thu, 25 August 2005 18:27

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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JD Smith writes:

> One of the joys of the active command line.

I've been doing this a LONG time, but today I saw
this on a PC, too. What in the world have I been
paying attention to!? RETALL has *never* failed me,
ever! I feel like I'm in some kind of time warp... :-(

Here is another thing today that surprised me. Two people
in the class have new Mac laptops. I have a little program,
PickColorName, that displays 96 small draw widgets and fills
them with a color with Polyfill. Colors appears instantaneously
on a Windows PC. But on the Macs (both of them) the draw widgets
appear all in black, then a second or so later the colors appear.
It is VERY slow.

I was shocked, really. I hear so much about how Macs are
perfect for graphics applications, but this looked more like
the VAX VMS workstations I learned IDL on 20 years ago.
Any ideas about why this happens? One of the Mac users
told me it is common with some of her applications, too.

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Re: Mac Program Support By: K. Bowman on Fri, 26 August 2005 07:31
		Re: Mac Program Support By: David Fanning on Fri, 26 August 2005 07:18
		Re: Mac Program Support By: K. Bowman on Fri, 26 August 2005 07:00
		Re: Mac Program Support By: Haje Korth on Fri, 26 August 2005 05:31
		Re: Mac Program Support By: George N. White III on Fri, 26 August 2005 04:37
		Re: Mac Program Support By: jm on Fri, 26 August 2005 03:21
		Re: Mac Program Support By: David Fanning on Thu, 25 August 2005 18:27
		Re: Mac Program Support By: JD Smith on Thu, 25 August 2005 14:28
		Re: Mac Program Support By: David Fanning on Wed, 24 August 2005 19:37
		Re: Mac Program Support By: JD Smith on Wed, 24 August 2005 14:09
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