[Openmcl-devel] Modal dialog problems with CCL 1.9 32/64 on Mountain Lion

[Paul Krueger]

If I had to make a guess, I'd say that this is a Mountain Lion issue rather than a CCL issue. I'm only saying that because I've seen similar behavior in other applications running on Mountain Lion. For example, I've seen both Preview and Aperture stall for fairly long periods of time (10's of seconds or even a few minutes) when opening certain sorts of dialogs that require user input. It displays part of the dialog and stalls for a while before displaying the rest. I don't know the cause and I can't explain why a 1.8 CCL doesn't show the problem, but I'd still be pretty surprised if this turned out to be a CCL problem. 

For me there does seem to be some correlation between the occurrence of these stalls and how much I have going on at the time. It's as if the processor is switching from the display of the dialog to other runnable threads in the system and taking a long time to get back to the dialog. It always seems to get there eventually, but it's pretty annoying. I just today switched to OSX 10.8.1, so we'll see if this might be something that got fixed.

On Aug 27, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Alexander Repenning <Alexander.Repenning at colorado.edu> wrote:

> having problems with CCL and Mountain Lion. With this very recent version of CCL Version 1.9-dev-r15382M-trunk  strange things can happen quickly. 
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> In the listener eval:  (ccl::choose-file-dialog)
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> in CCL Version 1.9-dev-r15382M-trunk a dialog does come up but does not show the content of folders right away. Notice the Asynchronous Progress Indicator (bottom left):
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> <Screen Shot 2012-08-27 at 2.51.21 PM.png>
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> It can take a long time and sometimes it will only show up after doing some further manual navigation.
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> Doing the same thing on the same machine with CCL 1.8 32/64 will immediately show folder contents.
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> Could this be connected to recent thread management changes? Is this - even more crazy idea - due to some bizarre sandboxing overhead? 
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> Can anybody with Mountain Lion confirm similar findings or have different experiences?
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> Alex
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