PaperPort 3.5.2 Performance on PowerMac
PaperPort 3.5.2 Performance on PowerMac
From: Stuart Cheshire
Date: 08/18/96
Time: 03:30 pm
I've noticed a wierd behaviour with the PaperPort desktop.
If you double-click on a thumbnail to open it, it takes about
5 seconds for the window to appear. If you close the window and
double-click on another thumbnail to open it, it again takes about 5
seconds for the window to appear.
Now, here's the wierd thing.
Instead of closing the window, try this: Just put the window
in the background by clicking on the PaperPort desktop window to bring
it to the front. Now double-click on another thumbnail to open it. The
document is displayed almost instantaneously. Certainly in under one
second.
What's going on? It seems that Visioneer have worked to get
the image file decompression code to be *really* fast, yet the "open a
window" code is *really* slow. I think there's a bug there. It
shouldn't take 5 seconds to open a window. At the very least,
Visioneer could change the code so that instead of opening and closing
the document view window every time, they just create the window once
at program startup and then use ShowWindow and HideWindow to show and
hide the window. A lot of programs use this kind of technique to save
creating and destroying windows all the time.
It would make the Paperport software so much faster to use.
Stuart Cheshire
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