Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
- Subject: Re: An AppleScript to start an SVN Server on boot
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:50:15 +1100
On 15/03/2012, at 2:13 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
> And iOS doesn't auto quit apps. All your apps stay memory resident until there is no memory to run them. You double click on the home button and you can switch to the apps. But It's the opposite approach.
I think you'll find it's the same thing happening under the hood. When you quit an app, the memory isn't all released unless needed, but marked as inactive -- it's been that way for ages. That's why second launch is always quicker.
> Mac Apps are mostly document based, while most iOS ones aren't.
But auto-termination only happens when there are no documents open.
> Quitting an app's GUI on a non memory constrained environment while there is a boatload of free RAM available is actually penalizing the user by not showing the app's GUI while the app is still memory resident AND is in its smallest memory requirement state.
In practice, I don't think that's the case. The potential annoyance is the inability to command-tab to them. But if you have plenty of memory, an auto-terminated app like TextEdit will relaunch in a trice.
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> It's a "my way or the highway" approach that is not the pleasant Mac experience we've come to expect.
You're kidding right? It's "my way or the highway" has been the Apple approach forever. Remember the end of floppy drives? Or little things like the ability to have both arrows at the one end of a scroll bar? Or more on-topic, the elimination of AppleScript Studio?
Behavior changes with every OS release, for better or worse. It's one thing to say you don't like some of the Lion changes -- you're not alone -- but it's fantasy to suggest this is something new.
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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