Re: lynx-dev incremental loading artifact

[Leonid Pauzner]

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>      * Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:07:48 -0400 (EDT)
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>>
>> With incremental loading on, I see the following annoying behavior.  As
>> the page begins, I see the first text.  However, once the page finishes
>> loading, lynx does what appears to be a 'refresh'.  This causes the entire
>> page to redraw.  As far as I have noticed, this only happens on the initial
>> load from command line - I don't see the refresh when following links.


We can do a test: start lynx with -partial_thres=2 and follow a slow link
to see several incremental stages. If you got >1 'refresh' the problem
in multiple invoking of HText_pageDisplay()  and if you got exactly 1 refresh
- something after getfile(), between case NORMAL and subsequent
HText_pageDisplay in mainloop (may probably fixed).


> I noticed this on Thursday night when I compiled on Digital Unix 4.0 -
> the program is spitting out a press-to-continue message but not following
> up with a get-character.  (If I see a reliable fix, I'll add it - but we've
> had far too much changing back/forth in partial-display).

> It does not seem to happen (for me, anyway) on Solaris or with ncurses.
> The change happened between dev.21 and dev.27, and is probably related
> to partial-display.