I mostly use the menu items for things like getting to the 'open recent' menu items which changes regularly (not HenningJ's 'recent items' fix doesn't work for XCode. I agree that it can take a while (I'm on an older machine and for XCode it takes 4s), so we should look at trying to streamline the process.
Neurolepsy is the main guy working on the UI Access plugin. I'm not too sure what goes on inside it, but I think he did say it uses older Carbon stuff, and he might look at changing it to Cocoa which would likely speed things up. On 6 May 2011 11:32, Tony <[email protected]> wrote: > Any chance some kind of caching could be used with the new UI Access > Plugin when search an apps menu items? On my machine it can take up to > several seconds for the list to show up for a program like PS or > others with a lot of items. The menu items shouldnt change much if at > all so caching them could be a way to avoid the long pause when using > it.
