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Re: [zzdev] :gzz: Usage & Problem Report (version of 06.28)
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- Subject: Re: [zzdev] :gzz: Usage & Problem Report (version of 06.28)
- From: Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 02:48:14 +0900
- Cc: ted@xxxxxxxxxx, xanni@xxxxxxxxxx, eharter@xxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000707035749.24020X-100000@fuga>
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Hi--
>> ? When I deleted a new dimension name, or rearranged
>> the dimension names, rotation of dimensions became impossible.
>
>Hmmm??? Did you by any chance delete a pink cell? Those are the ones
>the dimensions are now selected of and if you delete one, then that
>dimension is frozen.
Definitely not. What I did may have had the same *effect*
somewhere in the innards, however.
>> ? When I hit 'escape' to go home, the left-hand window rotated
>> into the dimensions of the right-hand window.
>
>Actually, both go to d.1 d.2 d.3, I think - or not?
Nope. It was something like d.dates, d.marriage, d.clone ...
Same thing's happened several times, dift combinations.
>> ? The left-hand window cannot seem to rotate its dimension views.
>> It should be usable for general exploration, dims must rotate.
>
>Control-X, Control-Y, Control-Z
I vote for caps, harmonize with prototype.
>> ? (Windows-specific) After half an hour's use I got the Blue Screen
>> of Warning, restarts didn't help (still Blue Screen of Warning),
>> had to reboot.
>> If this is a general Java problem in Windows, then it's a problem
>> with Java, right? They say it works on everything ... And 80%
>> of the human race will have this problem.
>
>It's a problem of *Windows*, not Java, I'd think. Windows with I/O heavy
>stuff is asking for trouble. And because we're doing heavy I/O, writing
>after every step, then windows will fail.
>
>There is one way I can lower the number of writes to disk, which might
>help. But I'd recommend doing any important demos on Linux exactly
>because of this.
Aha!
Yes, I've asked Andrew to set up Gzz on my Linux machine,
but heard nothing back.
ChrzT
At 04:01 AM 7/7/00 +0300, you wrote:
>> ? When I deleted a new dimension name, or rearranged
>> the dimension names, rotation of dimensions became impossible.
>
>Hmmm??? Did you by any chance delete a pink cell? Those are the ones
>the dimensions are now selected of and if you delete one, then that
>dimension is frozen.
>
>> ? When I hit 'escape' to go home, the left-hand window rotated
>> into the dimensions of the right-hand window.
>
>Actually, both go to d.1 d.2 d.3, I think - or not?
>
>> ? The left-hand window cannot seem to rotate its dimension views.
>> It should be usable for general exploration, dims must rotate.
>
>Control-X, Control-Y, Control-Z
>
>> ? (Windows-specific) After half an hour's use I got the Blue Screen
>> of Warning, restarts didn't help (still Blue Screen of Warning),
>> had to reboot.
>> If this is a general Java problem in Windows, then it's a problem
>> with Java, right? They say it works on everything ... And 80%
>> of the human race will have this problem.
>
>It's a problem of *Windows*, not Java, I'd think. Windows with I/O heavy
>stuff is asking for trouble. And because we're doing heavy I/O, writing
>after every step, then windows will fail.
>
>There is one way I can lower the number of writes to disk, which might
>help. But I'd recommend doing any important demos on Linux exactly
>because of this.
>
> Tuomas
>
>
>
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