Re: FolderActions bug?
Re: FolderActions bug?
- Subject: Re: FolderActions bug?
- From: Rob Jorgensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 10:14:18 -0400
At 2:11 PM +0100 4/25/04, Mr Tea wrote:
On 24 Apr 2004, at 12.50 pm, Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
Under Mac OS X 10.3.3, whenever a FolderAction gets triggered, whatever
happens to be my front window (any app) loses focus for a second...
Does anyone else see this?
I'm disappointed to learn that the problem still hasn't been fixed in Panther.
The triggering of Folder actions should be completely unobtrusive.
It's not. If, for example, I exported a file from Photoshop into a
folder with an action attached, I would have to wait until the
folder action had done its work and the Photoshop palettes had
stopped flickering in and out of existence before continuing to work
on a Photoshop document. Irksome and distracting.
I too am disappointed to learn that this hasn't been fixed in Panther
and I have all but stopped using folder actions due to the disruption
caused by the flickering focus.
I also long for folder actions that do not kick in until newly added
files are complete (files that are in the process of being
downloaded/transferred to the attached folder). It shouldn't be
necessary for scripters to add routines to determine if a
download/transfer is complete.
It's sad that folder actions don't live up to their full potential.
-- Rob (still plugging away with Jaguar)
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