[Scribia-dev] [Bugs-438569 ] progress dialog eating CPU time

[Ben H. <bh...@al...>]

>
>Initial Comment:
>This is strage: When I put Scribia in the background, my
>foreground appication is dog-slow. When I drag something
>over Scribia's scanning progress indicator, things speed up a
>lot in the foreground.


Not sure why that might be, but..

>I have no clue about Mac internals, so this might be a stupid
>assumption: Does the progress indicator use spinning or
>something like it that eats a lot of cycles?


Yes, scanning is not very friendly to other apps. Also, calling 
waitnextevent yourself in a powerplant app is A Bad Thing=81. We do not 
treat other apps nicely.  And we don't have a freakin' cancel button.

Still need to look into threading the scanner.

-Ben
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