window resizing

**wnowak1** · October 2nd, 2003, 09:27 PM

Will anything be made to the way windows are resized in OS X? It is absolutely horrible. Its not smooth at all. Compared to windows XP or 2k. Resizing windows in MS is smooth and continuous. On OS X it jerks and you to pause for it to update to see where the position of the window is...If you don't like it, you have to continue resizing it. Its a tedious process.

Will panther have a solution for this? Is there a way to have outlined window resizing (opaque?) ?

For the curious, I have two macs. The new powerbook 12" 1, ghz, nvidia fx
and a dual 1 ghz radeon. Both resize windows at a slow, jerky, fasion.

Thanks

**Shotokan** · October 2nd, 2003, 10:42 PM

HMM...strange on the new powerbook. what build of panther are you using? did you upgrade to it. 10.3 7b74 is smooth when it comes to all window resizing on my 1.6 G5. Perhaps a clean install would help. Just my 2 cents.

**wnowak1** · October 2nd, 2003, 10:52 PM

resizing windows was horrible since os x came out.

I thought by now they would have an option to make it either smooth like in windows xp or outlined resizing.

**Arden** · October 3rd, 2003, 12:23 AM

Window resizing is much more advanced in OS X. The way Windows does it is quite smooth, this is true, but they often have redraw glitches that can make it look very ugly. You won't see these in OS X, but the technology behind this also contributes to the tardiness of resizing windows. It's really something you'll have to live with.

You could try optimizing your OS a bit. For an explanation of how to enable window buffering, look at the last post in the thread "Mac faster than PC?" on this site. It should be mine.

**Ripcord** · October 3rd, 2003, 12:36 AM

How fast does it update? I don't have a single app where the resize doesn't happen at LEAST 4-5 frames per second, and my system's not much faster than yours.

The answer to your question though, is no. There's nothing you can do (unless your system is extraordinarily slow for some reason)

**Arden** · October 3rd, 2003, 01:07 AM

On the recent computers I've used (my dad's dual 1.25 Ghz G4, G4's and G5's at the stores), windows resize really smoothly, so I don't know why you're having trouble with a 1 Ghz machine.

Maybe reinstall the OS? No, don't do that...