Re: User Interface freeze still in OS 9.1
Re: User Interface freeze still in OS 9.1
- Subject: Re: User Interface freeze still in OS 9.1
- From: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:49:36 -0800
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
cris wrote:
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on 10.12.2000 20:01 Uhr, Bill Cheeseman at email@hidden wrote:
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> on 12/10/00 1:25 PM, cris at email@hidden wrote:
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>> set startime to current date
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>> repeat until ((current date) > (startime + 10))
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>> end repeat
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> What happens if you change it like so:
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> set startime to current date
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> repeat until ((current date) > (startime + 10))
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> delay 1
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> end repeat
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No difference. It's not a theoretical problem as you probably think. You can
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put between the repeaet-end repeat whatever (and as much) you want, it
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freezes the UI.
As we'd discussed before, this is a bug in the applet shell combined with a bug
in the default active proc. It's not the script's fault, and I don't believe
it's possible to work around it in the script. I hope to have both bugs fixed
in 1.5.6, which should be released at about the same time as Mac OS X.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering