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From: ann@sioux.apple.com (Ann Nunziata)
Subject: Extremely Cheesy Windows Graphics With HDL Advisor
Hi John,
We have a demo copy of HDL Advisor, and we are very disappointed in the User
Interface. Maybe you prefer (clunky) windows apps., but I am afraid that we
are Mac and Motif snobs. HDL Advisor looks like Synopsys paid someone to
write it for them on a PC. Some things we have seen are:
- The user interface does not match the UI of all Synopsys' other tools.
- The scroll bars are slow.
- Re-drawing the window is slow. For example, our normal windows redraw
instantly when moving from behind to in front of other windows. The
browswer window toolbar fills in sloooowly.
- The menu bars, when pulled down, obscure text as they should. When the
menu snaps back, the text is redrawn, BUT when the window is scrolled,
the text formerly under the menu pulldown does not scroll. (The
workaround we found was to re-size the browser window after each menu
pulldown.)
- If another window covers the browswer window, and then the browser is
brought back to the front, sometimes the browswer toolbar and frame
is not redrawn or a whole is left in the text (but NOT ALWAYS).
(Hiding and revealing over and over, or resizing the window fixes this.)
- The concept of writing to gtech libraries slows down the reading in of
designs with or without the hdl_dvisor_enabled true.
Maybe they gave you a better copy, John. Ours was Version v3.3a-slot3b.
- Ann Nunziata & Magnus Karlsson
Apple Computer, Inc.
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