Re: Why is the display of the contents of a TK Dialog delayed

I've noticed the same delay on my Linux system at home, and never bothered to persue it. The default GUI setup on a RedHat system (gnome, kde, enlightenment, xfree, etc...) is so convoluted, perverse, and made up of such poor quality components it's a wonder it works<super>*</super>.

The initial frame appears quickly enough, but the packing takes quite a while. This (probably) eliminates the X server and the window manager. This leaves the widget toolkits.

The delay does not exist under AIX (with local display) or under Windows NT (native Win32 Tk). Nor running from AIX or Irix displaying to Linux's X server.

*The wonderful thing about a dancing bear is not how well he dances,but that he dances at all.

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Re: Re: Why is the display of the contents of a TK Dialog delayed by busunsl (Vicar) on Mar 16, 2001 at 20:34 UTC
I don't think it's the toolkit. During the delay the cpu load is zero. It looks like a sleep 1.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Why is the display of the contents of a TK Dialog delayed by clintp (Curate) on Mar 17, 2001 at 02:24 UTC
Running strace or the equivalent will turn up a sleep syscall if there is one. You might want to do that (I'm not at home and can't myself...).	[reply]