Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!dykimber From: dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Intuition and Rectangles Keywords: windows flipping rectangles intuition weird pain Message-ID: <4714@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 5 Dec 88 00:28:42 GMT Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 22 Hi, I've been bothered by something for a while and I wondered if anyone could give me a legit explanation of why exactly it's necessary. First I'll describe the symptoms. I have, say, two windows on the workbench screen, both the size of the screen. I open up a very small window (like the virusx title-only window) and start dragging it around the screen, dropping it off more or less randomly, and then moving it again. After about ten or twenty times, the delay between when I let go of the button and the time I have control of the mouse again is very high, more than a second. Now, if I try to flip back and forth between the other two windows, it takes a long time and it's easy to see how the system has divided the whole thing up into rectangles. Okay, now it's pretty obvious what's going on here, so I won't embarrass myself by misdescribing it, but my question is the following: why? Is it too costly to try to consolidate some of these areas after every move? If this is true, couldn't it be set up like lisp garbage collection so that it only went through the whole process, say, every so many rectangles or perhaps according to system performance? Or am I misunderstanding something that makes it clearly impossible to do what I want in any sensible way? As it stands, it's somewhat annoying for people like me who have the nervous habit of idly dragging small windows around the screen while they're thinking. Thanks for any info, -Dan