Yeah, it came through fine in your first email.

Julian

Doug Way wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I don't think my attached screenshot worked... (the Apple Mail 
> program is pretty horrible with attachments)
> 
> I just put the screenshot here:
> 
> http://www.mindspring.com/~dway/smalltalk/notifier.gif
> 
> - Doug Way
> 
> 
> On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 12:50 AM, Doug Way wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>>
>> > First thing I get reminded of when starting to look at this is -
>> > why on earth does going from the notifier to the debugger involve some
>> > idiotic fading window nonsense? On a fast machine it happens too fast
>> > to
>> > notice and on a slow machine it is utterly annoying. Aargh!
>>
>> I've noticed this too.  Whatever it is, I'm sure it's not intentional. 
>> (Or at least I hope not, in the name of all things decent.)
>>
>> On a reasonably slow machine (400Mhz Mac G4), this "ghost" window
>> appears for maybe a 1/4 of second before dissappearing.
>>
>> My guess is that maybe the component submorphs of the notifier window
>> are being deleted a little bit later than the rest of the SystemWindow
>> for some unknown reason.  (Just based on the behavior, I haven't looked
>> at the code.)  With the #alternativeWindowLook preference (the
>> default), a lot of window panes are translucent, so I think that
>> explains the weird fade-out effect.
>>
>> Hey, I just tried hitting alt-. while the notifier was "fading" out to
>> see if I could catch it in the act, and I got it on the first try! 
>> I've attached a screenshot.  The ghost window still a full-fledged
>> PreDebugWindow (SystemWindow) at this point, and I can bring up halos
>> on it, so my previous theory was wrong.  When inspecting the window,
>> the color of the window is a TranslucentColor (see the screenshot),
>> while a normal notifier is a regular Color.  So somewhere the window's
>> color is being changed before it dissappears.
>>
>> I don't feel like looking further into it at the moment, but this might
>> be enough to pique someone's curiosity, and figure out what's going on.
>>
>> - Doug Way
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>> <notifier.gif><ATT2504565.txt>
> 
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