Active activities as Widgets

[Gerard J. Cerchio]

Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   Well, I know that I can make a user document with a running movie
> clip, real time view-finder of camera, spectrum analysis of audio
> input, and a user-scripted simulation going at the same time
> on B4 (4-5 fps is not so great though). 
>
>   These widgets are running in the same address space but that is
> offset by some facts such as Etoys display model is not optimal, our
> code for playing movie, copying bits of video frames to make the
> player a real end-user scriptable object, FFT are not optimized, etc.
> It should be possible to provide an ok experience for most of the time
> and I was not talking unrealistic rant, I believe.
>
> -- Yoshiki
> _______________________________________________
>   

Yoshiki,

I am properly admonished and shall hold my performance speculations 
until my machines arrive.