Re: is there any way of speeding this up, please?
Re: is there any way of speeding this up, please?
- Subject: Re: is there any way of speeding this up, please?
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:39:02 +0100
Le 26 févr. 2012 à 12:06, Brian Christmas a écrit :
> G'day Alex
>
> This is just a script I'm updating for Lion that was published on MacScripters for System 4.x & 5.x, and got quite a few downloads (freebie).
>
> It automatically aligns selected icons, and can pack them in much tighter than the Finder if so desired. I mainly use it to keep my desktop icons neat and tidy. There were a lot of hassles with it in 10.6.x, so I never released that version.
>
> The reason I'm using 'selection as alias list' is because it's faster than just 'selection'.
Right... forgot about that behavior.
In your case, the selection is used to convey the full list of items the user has chosen to act upon, and this may indeed quickly become a rather long list.
> The script is very slow on reselecting large selections, unless the following line is commented out…
>
> select my KeepSelection.
Trying here with about 750 items, this one looks to be very quick:
tell application "Finder"
set x to selection as alias list
select {}
set selection to x
end tell
HTH,
Axel
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