Re: Request for Enhancement

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:00:19 +0100

Hi!

Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU> said:

Doug> I would like to request that 'flash' be disabled when the map
Doug> is in the iconic state. I've noticed that flash can use quite
Doug> a bit of CPU resources when multiple icons are flashing even
Doug> when the window is iconic. Having it not flash in iconic state
Doug> should fix this.

I think this is a `mis-feature' that appeared in one of the latest Tk
versions. Tk3.6 was clever enough to avoid updates to iconified
windows. This was great because application writers did not need to
pay attention to the window state. I think this good feature was lost
somewhere on the way to non X11 platforms. I hope that John will put
this feature back into the core.

Juergen