[GEM Development] OpenGEM Project Liberation Beta1

[veganalex]

Hi

I have installed the window animation thingy, on my normal OpenGEM
installation on my computer, and it works great. The problem i had
with the liberation beta 1, was that when i opened it in the plain
installation of DosBox - everything went slow, then I tried it in
another installation, where i had copied the main files over, so that
i could write an installer, and install it as opengem straight
forward, and it starts up straight to opengem :D - so liberation works
in that, when i exit opengem, and then startup the liberation gem
files.

On my last attempt to startup it though - it just froze altogether -
but that was the complete version.

veganalex

sorry if i have confused anyone!

On 26/08/05, John Elliott <jce at seasip.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> : Hi!!
> :
> : Today I tried the new OpenGEM Liberation. It looks very good and the drives
> : detection work without Problems on my Pent166/Win98SE System (btw. can it
> : also detect Network drives?). Good work.
> : One question: The window opening animation seems to be a bit slow. Is it
> : possible to make it a little bit faster?
> 
>   Ah. The window animation.
> 
>   In the original GEM, the animation didn't have any sort of speed
> regulation at all. It ran as fast as the CPU could draw it, which was
> fine for 8086s but not for anything much faster than that. Using the
> standard 55ms timer made it too slow, so it busy-waits. It works out how
> many calls to dos_getticks() it can do in a second, and then uses that to
> delay 1/91 of a second at each stage of the animation. This worked fine on
> DRDOS where I originally wrote it.
> 
>   The problem, of course, is that when you're running in a DOS box on a
> more recent OS, the system's idle detection cuts in and throws the timing
> completely off. On NT, I've found that disabling idle detection on GEM.EXE
> (or was it GEMVDI.EXE?) helps; alternatively, moving the mouse about while
> GEM is displaying a blank white screen with an hourglass in the centre
> seems to baffle the idle detection mechanism.
> 
> --
> John Elliott
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