Thanks. speed up the system was always a concern to us now the font rendering takes time and we have all new machines so we do not feel the slugginess. Now this is important and in 1.1 we already got 15% speed increase for morphic. Stef On Nov 27, 2009, at 10:09 AM, neil butterworth wrote:

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

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Thanks for your reply :)

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True Color 24 bit

I have Display depth -> 32

then 24 looks strange to me.

24-bit is as reported by Windows Control Panel. I've changed this to 32 bit.

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depth: bitsPerPixel (bitsPerPixel > 32 or: [(bitsPerPixel bitAnd: bitsPerPixel-1) ~= 0]) ifTrue: [self halt: 'bitsPerPixel must be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32']. depth := bitsPerPixel

Can you type Display depth

This gives me 32.

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and Display depth: 32 to see if this change something?

Makes no difference, I'm afraid :-(

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We should keep an old machine around to test it. this is strange. Because the Ob2Browser is slow because it displays package and getting package information is slow. Which browser are you using

I've tried all the available browsers, and I've turned off all eye-candy stuff like gradients. I don't think this is a browser issue. The problem is if I click on any window (including transcript & workspace) there is an appreciable lag beforethe window activates. It seems posible that this is something in the mouse event processing, rather than the display code.

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Can you change the theme? using the preference pane?

I've messed about with just about all possible settings. THis is not a new problem BTW - a version of Pharo I tried about 6 months ago had the same issues, but I assumed that they would get ironed out as time went on - unfortunately, it seems not.

Thanks for your help, anyway

Neil Butterworth