I know pretty much zip about the internals, but would it be possible to have
a blocking call that looks for a pen down, instead of checking an event
queue (which is what I assume is happening) in an event loop.

-----Original Message-----
From: Raab, Andreas [mailto:Andreas.Raab at disney.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 1999 5:11 AM
To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: RE: Q: What makes Morphic slow?


Henrik,

> This is the old problem with the Win VM making delays in the
> primMousePt primitive. Since CEs use taps instead of dragging, the
> heuristic not to delay when a mouse button is down doesn't work properly.

Good point! It never occured to me that the above would actually happen. Now
the question is what do we do?! Drain the batteries by disabling the delay?!
Any other suggestions?!

  Andreas