info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (12/03/84)
From: (Neil Groundwater [stug]) npg@lbl-csam I sent off my instructions on how to get yourself a Journal without much experimentation in its USE. Now that I've had a few minutes experience, I will pass that along, too. My sample: MacPaint. Start the Journal, turn on Record. Start up MacPaint and draw some stuff. Leave MacPaint. Stop the recorder. Now for the glitches... Don't turn on the Journal menu while in MacPaint. If already started from without, touching the Journal in the menu-bar will cause a crash (not reentrant?). I tried to start recording while in MacPaint, but I lost control of MacPaint. Journalling writes to the disk frequently. Anything you do while the disk is being accessed will cause a lurch when it comes back to you. (remember the glitches in Guided Tour?) Move fairly slowly if you want it to look nice. Perhaps it would work nicely when running RamDisk or MacWorks with HardDisk. I will leave those exercises to the reader. ...Neil