Re: What's up with the Cocoa Text System?
Re: What's up with the Cocoa Text System?
- Subject: Re: What's up with the Cocoa Text System?
- From: Michael Crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:53:12 -0800
At one time I found it quite painful to edit source code with Xcode.
I was told that was due to Xcode using the Cocoa text widget.
Consider that Lightspeed C worked just fine, snappy and responsive, on
my 6 MHz 68000 Mac 512k (or was it 8 MHz).
I myself did a lot of the work on Working Software's QuickLetter,
which used the same CoreEdit styled text engine as MacWrite. When I
ran into its developers at a WWDC, I shouted "We owe you sixty
thousand dollars!"
"No worries," one of them replied, "Say 'Hi' to Dave for us."
While somewhat buggy QuickLetter was quite perfomant on System 6.5 on
a Mac Plus. It stopped being buggy after I'd been working for WSI for
a while.
A real good way to get performance problems out of code, is for that
code's developers to use the very slowest computers they possibly can
as their development machines.
Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer
email@hidden
http://www.warplife.com/mdc/
Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan
Area.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:43 AM, sqwarqDev <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On 23 Jan 2015, at 20:50, Charles Jenkins <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I have turned off Autocorrect and Check Spelling While Typing to eliminate the significant pause that happens each time you finish a word and hit the space bar.
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> That's a local issue you've got there.
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> 1. Create a new user. Restart and log in to that account. If the problem is not apparent in the new user account, look carefuly at what 's in the affected account's ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder and its System Preferences > Users & Groups | Login Items ("look carefully" = remove everytihng and add them back in one at a time till you find the culprit).
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> 2. If the problem persists in a new user account, look at what's in both of
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> [Hard Disk]/Library/LaunchAgents
> [Hard Disk]/Library/LaunchDeamons
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> Again, eliminate any 3rd party stuff, restart and test. Add any 3ed party files back in one at a time, restarting and testing after each, till you find the miscreant.
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> 3. If there's no 3rd party stuff in there or removing them doesn't solve the issue, find or get an external USB HD, do a clean install of OS X, boot into it and see the difference. If it's noticeable don't discount internal HD failure (have you checked the SMART status of the disk in Disk Utility?), but chances are a reinstall of OS X on your internal HD will sort things out.
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> If there is no difference, you've got hardware problems (too little, badly seated or corrupt RAM, failing logic board, graphics card, etc).
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> Best
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> Phil
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