CPU running hot

[JonathanC at ag.nsw.gov.au]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Neville Smythe wrote:

> and type anything into the search field so that the Find button 
> pulsates ... The CPU immediately jumps to running flat out and 
> stays that way

To which Alex Rice <alex at mindlube.com>, on Fri, 26 Dec 2003, replied:

> And that button is the culprit right there. 
> It's really OS X's fault, 
> for making pulsating gumdrop eye candy 
> that uses tons of CPU resources. 
> (and it is the OS that's doing the rendering,
> not Rev). I think it's 
> not just Revolution apps that have this problem.

I'm not so sure. I just tried the Search dialog boxes in Lotus Notes 6, 
Word X and TextEdit 1.2, ALL of which have pulsating, blue Default 
buttons, and NONE of them made the CPU monitor hit the maximum the way 
that Revolution does.

Jonathan Cooper
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