Load Times are still too long for loading a program the first
time (on A Duron700 with 128 MB Cl2 RAM and a Win98SE OS with low memory
use).

Why not only load text area, function bar and text menus; that
shouldn't be more than several 100 KBs.

Then load dynamically.

Also you might log what a user has used the last time and the most often during 
the last 10 times he was running the program and then only load the appropriate
code and data sections probable needed.

Load Times on my machine should be less than 1 sec.. Also load times of 
standard text-writing program functions during the use of this program should 
be not noticable.


Further explanation:

especially if you open a document you might want to read it first or need to
find the position where you must continue editing, also reading some of the
last text -- so here it is a good idea to have StarWriter only load mininmal
code first and/or display the written text fast and then (while users read)
load additional code.

You might also want to implement a 'Document Complete' Flag (editable by
user by function bar icon for example) telling StarWriter when opened to
enter (a not-only) Read Mode _fast_ or to go to the last cursor or
end-of-text position (needing some more time).

Clarification: text menus: thats the simple menu bar (File, Edit etc) with
"text entries" ('Open File' is text) without the corresponding function
code; function bar or icon bar is just 16x16x8-bit bitmap icon bar.
The total data size of those 2 shouldn't be more than 300 KByte.
And the Windows window code might be loaded already because Windows needs it
itself. So load times should be really low.


Size-wise issue:

I have StarWriter, StarCalc+help and StarMath only installed and it takes
140 MB on my Hd.

That wasn't the case with StarOffice 3.1 and honestly -- so much hasn't
changed. The new and more comfortable functions I use aren't worth 100 MB
!!!!!!


P.s.: You might want to ask SUN how they are doing :-)