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OK, it's not free but ...
Authored by: harmless on Jul 06, '04 12:05:22PM

... do you know Tigger? <http://www.furrysoft.de/?page=tigger>

While I'm the author, and therefore probably biased, I find that a much nicer solution. :)


Andreas



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OK, it's not free but ...
Authored by: ahbe on Jul 06, '04 06:10:14PM

I gave Tigger a spin. Once I got it working, it was a slick little app. I really like the plugin ability. However, I had a few comments. First, it took me several tries to get it to even load without locking up. After the first few tries, I thought It might need a reboot. I rebooted and it still didn't work. Then, all of a sudden, about the 5th try, it just fired right up and worked. Go figure. My next problem with Tigger was the inability to remove it from the dock. There needs to be some way to have Tigger start up at logon, and not take up space in my dock. The last problem however was a killer. Tigger is a resource hog. On my first gen 12" PB it was taking up on average 12% to 19% CPU utilization. That's just unaceptable. I've bookmarked your site, and I'll check back later. If you can fix those few problems, I'll buy a copy. -- Ahbe



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Authored by: harmless on Jul 07, '04 06:42:04AM
First, it took me several tries to get it to even load without locking up. After the first few tries, I thought It might need a reboot. I rebooted and it still didn't work. Then, all of a sudden, about the 5th try, it just fired right up and worked.
That's news to me. Something in the console.log?
My next problem with Tigger was the inability to remove it from the dock. There needs to be some way to have Tigger start up at logon, and not take up space in my dock.
I'm working on this. Expect a new version soon.
Tigger is a resource hog. On my first gen 12" PB it was taking up on average 12% to 19% CPU utilization. That's just unaceptable.
Well, I'm afraid, that's not gonna change soon. It's quite expensive to redraw the ticker view several dozen times a second. OpenGL might help, but I'm not familiar enough with it yet.

Andreas

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Authored by: Pausanias on Jul 07, '04 05:02:54PM

I like Tigger, but I was looking for a solution without a "ticker." I just want a static display, updated every 20 seconds or so. In general, I don't like to see things moving on my screen unnecessarily. The CPU usage is also a concern---I generally need 100% of both my CPUs.

My suggestion would be to provide an option for an "infrequent refresh" on Tigger.



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Authored by: harmless on Jul 07, '04 08:53:34PM
I just want a static display, updated every 20 seconds or so.
You are not the first one to ask. :)
Tigger is really meant as a kind of system service to display various bits of information. But I will think about a solution that reduces movement to a minimum.
The CPU usage is also a concern---I generally need 100% of both my CPUs.
I don't think I can reduce it much while keeping the scrolling smooth. Try to experiment with the settings. In case a future version would reduce scrolling, that would reduce cpu time too, of course.

What I can do now is add a renice option. That way Tigger should not take cpu time when other processes need it.

Andreas

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