On 26 Aug 2015, at 02:57, Alexandre Bergel alexandre.bergel@me.com wrote:

Hi!

When I open the world menu, the mouse cursor is intensively blinking, and opening the menu is _very slow_. This bugs has been around for a couple of weeks already. Am I the only one to see it?

I saw it one day after coming back from ESUG. I added an issue tracker entry. Nicolai immediately commented that he did not see any slowdown. I rebooted my machine, never saw the problem again.

But removing the #showWhile: is a good idea.

I have checked the cause, and apparently the problem disappear by removing the use of “Cursor read showWhile:”. The following method:

ImageReadWriter>>formFromStream: aBinaryStream "Answer a ColorForm stored on the given stream. closes the stream" | reader readerClass form | readerClass := self readerClassFromStream: aBinaryStream. reader := readerClass new on: aBinaryStream. Cursor read showWhile: [ form := reader nextImage. reader close ]. ^ form -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

May be rewritten as:

ImageReadWriter>>formFromStream: aBinaryStream "Answer a ColorForm stored on the given stream. closes the stream" | reader readerClass form | readerClass := self readerClassFromStream: aBinaryStream. reader := readerClass new on: aBinaryStream. form := reader nextImage. reader close. ^ form -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

However, changing the cursor has been around for quite a long time. It is strange that the slow menu is surfacing only now.

Any idea why?

Cheers, Alexandre

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