Re: XForms: slow xforms

T.C. Zhao (tc_zhao@yahoo.com)
Sun, 3 Oct 1999 00:35:54 -0700 (PDT)

# To subscribers of the xforms list from "T.C. Zhao" <tc_zhao@yahoo.com> :

not being an Ada programmer, it's not easy to know
exactly where the problem lies. But it does sounds
like some threading problem inside the binding.
Does showing a form (just showing, no interaction)
also slow ?

--- Bernhard Rumpler <rumpler@eunet.at> wrote:
> # To subscribers of the xforms list from Bernhard Rumpler
> <rumpler@eunet.at> :
>
> Steve Lamont wrote:
>
> > You can have multiple threads but only
> > one thread can communicate with the X server or make XForms/Xlib
> calls.
>
> Our additional threads don't communicate with the X server, only the
> main thread.
>
> > However, I'm not sure that all of this is related to your problem.
> Are
> > you certain it's the loading of the pixmaps which is causing the
> big
> > slowdown?
>
> Not only the loading of pixmaps, the whole program runs extremely
> slow,
> e.g. if I select a line of a browser it takes several seconds until I
> get the data (fl_get_browser_line), or showing forms, even
> initializing
> takes much longer. But the pixmaps are worst (as it takes 3 minutes
> create them).
>
> > Are you using any sort of locking mechanism that might be
> > blocking the loads unnecessarily?
> >
>
> No. This doesn't seem to be the problem.
>
>
> Bernhard Rumpler
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