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Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update"

At 15:19 Uhr -0500 24.03.2004, Kevin Ballard wrote:
1) When selecting an app, there's 2 extra linebreaks at the end of the info, causing that pane to have an active scrollbar with no content beyond the visible area

I guess that's personal preference. I hate it when I can't scroll stuff up a little while reading.

2) It scans *really* slowly. Because it needs the MacPAD.url file, it can only work with .app applications. While it was scanning my /Applications folder I opened the terminal and did a cd /Applications and find . -name '*.app' and it found all the applications in that folder in a fraction of the time Shovel spent. In fact, it found all the applications in the folder in the amount of time it took Shovel to parse the Adobe applications and the CodeWarrior folder (since those have tons of files in them).

I'm aware of that issue, and I'm looking into ways to make this faster. Right now, I'm using NSWorkspace's directory enumerator, which is ridiculously slow. I'm already skipping bundle contents, invisible files etc. For what it's worth, the list of applications will be cached when you quit, and from then on it will not scan again at each startup.

3) While it was searching, I pressed Mark All and the application froze

It didn't. It blocked the main thread ;-) But yeah, I guess I should fix that. Thanks for making me aware of this.

I highly suggest either actually using the find command or optimizing your search routine to be as fast, because currently it takes like 30 seconds just to find Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe ImageReady CS, and Adobe Photoshop CS (the first 3 applications it finds). and another 20 seconds just parsing the rest of the files in the Photoshop folder to figure out there's nothing there.

I'll have a look at "find", though when last I tried to use it, it brought up no results, so I didn't even think of using an NSTask to get at it.

BTW, since you're using MacPAD, presumably you're using the cocoasdk code I wrote.
If you haven't upgraded to the version I just released, I suggest you do so, because it fixes a problem where the main thread hangs

No, luckily I wrote all of Shovel myself.

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 >[ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [ANN] Shovel - Third-Party "Software Update" (From: Kevin Ballard <email@hidden>)



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