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UI issues in Lion #200

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What Version of iTiVo?
Version 1.7.7b3 (1.7.7b3)

What Version of MacOS X?
10.7.4 OSX Server

What download format did you select?
DMG

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use iTivo on OSX Lion
2. Select an item from the list
3. Select another item and UI doesn't update selection

Please provide any additional information below.
Basically I am seeing lots of UI related issues, on two machines (a macbookPro, 
and a mac mini server, both running OSX Lion Server). I select a list entry, 
and the subscribe/queue/download buttons won't get enabled until I click on it 
again. The entry would not get selected until I click on it a second time. 
Sometimes these app would just not respond to clicks for a long time, then 
suddenly process those clicks in one go, as if they were queued. In all these 
cases, the processor is not being taxed at all, its always running at under 
20%, and the iTivo process is not taking up any unusual amounts of memory or 
cpu cycles.
The machine is connected through ethernet cables to a router which is again 
connected through ethernet cables to the Tivo (premiere) box.
This kind of UI response really frustrates me, and makes the app completely 
unusable. Being a Mac developer myself, I downloaded the source but xcode4 
cannot open the mainmenu.nib, and the UI interactions are written in apple 
script so I can't debug this issue using native debugging of the app myself.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by himanshu...@gmail.com on 6 Jun 2012 at 6:21

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Known issues.  I suspect that the only real way to fix things is to recode in 
Objective-C.  But I haven't found the oomph to do that yet.  Wanna help?

Original comment by tony1ath...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 6:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It looked quite complex!! I wish I had time outside work to help out. Maybe I 
will try playing around with a objC version in my free time and see how far I 
can get. I hope if you do find somebody else to do it, it will get posted to 
the svn repository that I could grab too :)
Is the real exact cause known as well? Maybe there is a simpler fix? Any plans 
to upgrade the project to Xcode 4?

Original comment by himanshu...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 7:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes, the full app is complex, but I'd be happy to start small and get that part 
right first.  I'm very happy to collaborate.

No, I don't know why the applescript is behaving badly.  I tried debugging it, 
but was unable to make sense of it.  Yes, if I do the Objective-C version, it 
would be with current Xcode and probably a 10.6 requirement.

Original comment by tony1ath...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 7:35