It just works
The other day I remoted in from home to my Vista machine at work and noticed that the caret had stopped blinking. At first I thought it was a bug, but when more of the Vista animations weren't there, I realized that it was a feature.
Animations take bandwidth and Vista was degrading (gracefully) to give me better performance. Of course, Eclipse, RCP, SWT and other native applications get this right.
It's always cool when I find another feature that "just works". So many things just don't these days.
Steve
Animations take bandwidth and Vista was degrading (gracefully) to give me better performance. Of course, Eclipse, RCP, SWT and other native applications get this right.
It's always cool when I find another feature that "just works". So many things just don't these days.
Steve
posted by Steve at
11:08 AM
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You're using remote desktop I presume?
Incidentally, if you're running Vista on your local machine (with Aero enabled), it is possible to view the full Aero translucencies and animations through RDP (you have to enable some registry hack that I can't remember right now). I don't remember if it accelerates the graphics locally or not, but I do remember it didn't cause too much of a performance hit.
So, if you're manic about translucent window borders and flashy 3D animations, you do have the option of seeing them even remotely! :-)
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Daniel Spiewak, at 2:00 PM
It was XP remoted into Vista (and you missed the point).
Steve
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Steve, at 8:32 AM
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