Maybe this sounds silly, but have you tried to increase the keyboard repeat frequency in the system preferences. I once was silly enough not to.
___ Peter Hartmann ________ Am 23.01.2015 um 14:50 schrieb Charles Jenkins <cejw...@gmail.com>: > For some reason, typing text on a Mac has always had a little bit of > friction: however the OS receives keyboard input, it doesn't seem to be able > to keep up as well as a PC. But lately, toward the end of Mavericks' lifespan > and now on Yosemite, it has actually become painful to type in text. I'm > excited about working on my app, but when it comes time to sit down and work > on it, I always feel noticeable dread about having to type code into XCode. > > (Does anyone use BBEdit? Is it more responsive?) > > I don't want to open a Mac-vs-PC debate, so let me say I've used Macs since > the advent of Jaguar and I'd never buy anything else for my primary, personal > use. I work on PCs all day at work, but I bought a Mac mini there and work on > PCs remotely through Jump Desktop because the Mac can handle my display > better. Year over year, my experience is that everything is better on a > Mac... except typing text. The PC just keeps up better. > > I'm not just complaining here: I'm writing a word processor, so I'm concerned > about how to make my app more responsive. > > I'm composing this email using Airmail 2, but it wouldn't matter what email > client I used. I recently switched from Sparrow, where I had exactly the same > problems. I have turned off Autocorrect and Check Spelling While Typing to > eliminate the significant pause that happens each time you finish a word and > hit the space bar. I just wrote a reply and still had regular hiccups as I > typed, so then I turned off Substitutions - Smart Links and Substitutions - > Text Replacement. Now typing flows better and I'm able to get more words > typed in before a pause. It's much better now, but there are still times when > the computer will seem to hang for a bit and then a group of ten or so > characters will all appear at once. > > I am not a fast touch-typist, but post-Mavericks, it seems that in every new > app I have go go and turn off a bunch of text system features we Mac users > have come to rely on over the years in order to make typing at all bearable. > > Is there anything I can do as a developer to make my app more responsive and > make typing flow better, other than defaulting the app to turn off as many > text features as possible or writing my own replacement for NSTextView? > > -- > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/magnard%40web.de > > This email sent to magn...@web.de _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
