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Authored by: Drogoul on Oct 04, '02 01:33:23PM

Let's stay in the topic. Two things :

1) ASM and iAddressX are Menu Extras (like the ones Apple provides) and not APE/haxies related softs. To the author of the previous post: please inform yourself before issuing anything in the comments. They do not hack anything, just add functionality to your menu bar. And, in my opinion, they both fill a gap in Apple's implementation of, namely, the Finder and AddressBook.

2) It's true that iAddressX is actually very slow in updating its submenus with the list of contacts whenever you change one in AddressBook, or change a pref in the prefPane. And Menu Extras seem to all reside within the same process (if I'm wrong, please correct me), which means that, whenever one is blocked, it blocks the other ones. I've suffered from the same symptoms, and have temporarily removed iAddressX (i've only 250 contacts, but that's enough for the lag to appear).

I really hope it's gonna be fixed soon.
The solutions would be, from Apple, to multi-thread the UIServer (no hope in the near future) or, from iAddressX, to improve its sorting/menu building algorithm (and I guess it is feasible -- had it been open-source, I would have already checked).

Alexis



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