Feature request, and Mac viewer speed comparison

[Charlie McLachlan]

On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Eric L. N. Jensen wrote:

> With the Mac viewer/Linux server combination, the keyboard light
> doesn't light.  Could this be added as a feature?  Low priority,
> obviously, but for me it's in that "it would be nice if it's not too
> much trouble" category.

I shall look into it.

> On a different topic, I have tried both the ORL Mac viewer (Beta 1)
> and the viewer by Dair Grant (v. 1.2).  I found the ORL viewer to be
> much more responsive.  I've been running both with their default
> settings, though turning double-buffering off in Dair Grant's viewer
> doesn't help noticeably.  Any idea why they would be so different?

The major difference between mine and Dair's viewers is that mine uses
networking classes written my me, Dair uses the standard PowerPlant ones.
There are good reasons pro and con for both approaches. Dair's is more
future proof and easier to maintain. I decided to write my own versions of
the networking stuff because I found the PP versions were too slow. 

On the other hand Dair has made efforts to increase drawing speed (i.e.
with double/ triple buffering). If the ORL viewer is going faster then
this points to a networking reason.

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Charlie McLachlan - Responsible for VNC on the Mac
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