Delayed Open File Dialogue

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I wonder if anyone else has experienced this under 10.4.3,

 

Whenever I open a file from within a cocoa application there is a long pause before the standard open file dialogue box appears during which the colour wheel just spins. When it eventually appears the application functions as normal, and subsequent file open actions occur timeously until i quit the application and launch it again.

 

(On a completely unrelated note - does anyone know how to open nib files belonging to core service apps - whenever i try i get a error saying unable to open whatever.nib and two subsequent errors telling me that the nib file is read only and i can't save it, although it never opens anyway)

[thrunner]

cocoa application there is a long pause before the standard open file dialogue box appears during which the colour wheel just spins. When it eventually appears the application functions as normal, and subsequent file open actions occur timeously until i quit the application and launch it again.

Could you give examples of such Cocoa apps? With Shira 1.2 (supposedly written in Cocoa) there is no such lag (10.4.3...1099, Asus P5LD2-VM, CeleronD 331, 2GB). The only time I noticed such behavior which you described was with 10.4.1 and PPC apps such as iTune. Perhaps it is a Rosetta lag with PPC Cocoa apps on your system (lack of memory?). Have you tried the latest patch?

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You could be right there - the applications i have been using were powerpc apps - pacifist, folder icon x. If it is a rosetta delay then that would explain why it only happens the first time since it's presumably cached.

However, I am running a celeron D on and 915G board with 1gig of memory so i don't think i should be running into problems with memory. I disk i installed from contained the maxxuss sse2 patch but i thought it just wouldn't use it when it detects an sse3 processsor - perhaps i'll install from a tpm patch only disk and see what happens.

Edited January 1, 2006 by 0uch!p0tat0