I'm trying to use an NSTextView to display the output of a shell
script, but when my script outputs too much data, too quickly (on the
order of a dozen lines nearly simultaneously), my app gives up with a
pinwheel. I'm using an NSPipe to get the data,
readInBackgroundAndNotify to know when
re-created every time I update the string or
something?
On Jun 3, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:43 PM, Steven Moore wrote:
I'm trying to use an NSTextView to display the output of a shell
script, but when my script outputs too much data, too quickly (on
Have you tried turning on GC? At least that will move object
finalization into a background thread.
You might want to look at NSLayoutManager -
setAllowsNonContiguousLayout:
With both of these changes in place, and a bit of optimization on my
part (apparently, [[myTextView textStorage]
Heh, whoops. Maybe I should read the documentation better. The warning
is already there, I just missed it:
"NSTextStorage also defines a set of methods ... useful for getting
and setting scriptable properties of NSTextStorage objects... In
particular, using thecharacters, words or paragraph
