Problem with notes.

We use pro-e 2001 on Sun workstations under Solaris. When we create or
modify notes or text entities, if you type too quickly it sometimes
leaves double characters causing you to backup and re-type your entry.
Can anyone help eliminate this? It only happens in Pro, not any of the
other text editors.

 

: We use pro-e 2001 on Sun workstations under Solaris. When we create or
: modify notes or text entities, if you type too quickly it sometimes
: leaves double characters causing you to backup and re-type your entry.
: Can anyone help eliminate this? It only happens in Pro, not any of the
: other text editors.

Hopefully, you've solved this problem already. When I experienced it on an HPUX
system about 5 years ago, everyone went hunting for a Pro/e option or parameter
that could account for it. Turned out, as well as I can remember, it was a system
issue, something with a type-ahead buffer not being large enough so that when you
typed fast and it didn't have a letter in the buffer, it duplicated the last one
in the buffer. The reason Pro/e had this problem and not other applications is
that Pro/e seemed to be the only one that read from that buffer, a holdover from
the days of very slow dumb terminals or at least very slow displays, the kind
where you'd stop typing and watch the last 2-3 letters print on the screen.
Anyway, the solution turned out to be just increasing the size of this buffer.
Don't remember if the sysadmin had to do it or if it was a local workstation
setting.

David Janes