Re: More on photo date ambiguities

ASAAR <caught@xxxxxx> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:39:51 +0100, Terry Pinnell wrote:

>> Anyway, must say I'm astonished if it really is that hit and miss
>> about refreshing a key data field.
>
> Well, try to picture what you'd have to do if you were the
>programmer that wrote the Explorer code. You have the program issue
>command requests to Windows to return all of the directory
>information, which you then arrange to display on the screen. What
>next? Do you keep Windows busy perpetually, reissuing the same
>command requests, wasting many CPU cycles that could be better used
>by running programs? Microsoft evidently gambled that most users
>could tolerate a more static display of the file list, that would
>usually, but not always be up-to-date. That's the advantage that an
>"event driven" Explorer would offer. It could always display the
>latest file information (within milliseconds) without having to
>constantly waste resources polling the OS. That's how most Windows
>applications are designed, but evidently Explorer isn't one of them.

Thanks, but I'm not moved by your argument!

Try to picture what it would be like if you changed a filename in
Explorer but had to wait a day or look in DOS to see it implemented!

Same for a simple change of date. Why invoke 'perpetual scanning' etc?
The change should be made immediately. At worst, an F5 should then
display it.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK


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Terry, West Sussex, UK
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