On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Jeremy Gale <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2011, at 13:47:58, Jeremy Gale wrote: > >> The Apple Events that EyeTunes performs on iTunes do behave > synchronously and they actually come back relatively quickly. > > > > The difference may be library size. I have 33,152 songs—and that's *just* > songs, not counting TV shows or podcasts or any other things—and iTunes > routinely stalls for 3–7 seconds for any reason. Adding a song, changing a > rating, anything. > > > > When iTunes itself is hung, any attempt to communicate with it by Apple > Events will also hang. > > I see what you mean. For the most part, I'm only reading information > from iTunes - reading artist, titles, etc. The only thing I'm > modifying is the lyrics field. However, if it's that slow to modify, > use of my app will be pretty painful. Arguably iTunes itself sounds > pretty unusable in those conditions. > > Thanks for all the information on Apple Events. I'll do a big more > experimentation then report back. > > Look through growltunes source, if you're looking for the current track, there is a distributed notification which is sent out. That could help reduce some of the AE calls maybe. :) Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
