Re: AppleScript Editor and its windows (the return)
Re: AppleScript Editor and its windows (the return)
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Editor and its windows (the return)
- From: Yvan KOENIG via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 16:04:39 +0100
> Le 25 oct. 2020 à 11:54, Shane Stanley via AppleScript-Users
> <email@hidden> a écrit :
>
> On 25 Oct 2020, at 3:51 am, Yvan KOENIG via AppleScript-Users
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> The odd behavior with windows whose visible is false is always striking in
>> 10.13.6.
>> Is it the same with newer systems?
>
> It's a result of the way tabbed windows are implemented. Although it appears
> that only one window is visible when you have several tabbed, as far as the
> part of the OS that controls them is concerned, they're all normal visible
> windows -- it's only at the screen drawing end of things that drawing is
> omitted for all but the active one. Because the visible property is part of
> the former machinery, it's now largely useless.
>
> The issue of windows hanging around for a very long time is possibly a bug,
> but they can legitimately hang around, even if unseen. Windows can be closed,
> but they can also be ordered out, which means they don't appear on screen but
> still exist.
>
> Much of this was introduced with window tabbing in 10.12, and although it
> might sound a bit odd, the result is that tabbed windows are much snappier
> for users. The problem is that the scripting parts of things -- the
> -orderedWindows method of NSApplication, and the visible property of windows
> -- haven't been adjusted accordingly. So apps that rely on the built-in stuff
> produce the sort of thing you see.
>
> In many cases the people who build the apps probably aren't aware of the
> problem. And if they are, they can't fully fix them because it's stuff beyond
> their control -- they have to work around them.
>
> --
> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
> <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
Thank you Shane.
In fact I already reported the problem in march 2014 with Maverick.
Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche
25 octobre 2020 16:04:22
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