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Article #42327Re: Why does it take forever to launch an app some times???
From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 00:45
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 00:45
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In article <3207@ncar.ucar.edu> cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff) writes:
> of NFS file systems via a GatorBox. Then I started a small application.
> It took a minute easily before the name appeared on the menu bar. During
> that time, the little AppleShare arrows were visible. I don't know what
The Finder was probably updating the desktop information on the server
volume(s). Any delay between the time you launch the application and its
name appearing in the menu bar is the Finder updating the desktop file.
This would happen if you opened folders, moved icons around, etc. The
Finder also empties the trash at this time.
One funny story related to this. In the early days before MultiFinder,
certain applications
(which shall remain nameless) would call InitWindows when they exited.
Besides initializing the Window Manager, this call also drew the gray
desktop, thus giving the impression that the Finder was taking a long time
to start up, when really the application was still quitting.
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist
Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!oliveb!apple!Apple.COM!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Why does it take forever to launch an app some times??? Message-ID: <1775@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 11 May 89 00:45:26 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Objects-R-Us, Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 24