Avoiding the beach-ball with 690 and OSX

I'm sure this is the fault of the beta status of DP8, but it does seem
that some folks here are able to use 690 and DP8 to get work done. So
far, I'm not. It does launch, and I can get some work done, but sooner
or later, I get the dreaded spinning beach-ball, and have to force-quit.
My machine has 1G RAM, is running the latest OS X, and DP8.

I've upped the memory in the Info.plist, as follows:

VMOptions -Xms128m -Xmx512m]]>

And that did help, but I still get the beachball regularly. (But, alas,
not reproducably.) It is often associated with modal dialogs.

So, anyone who is able to use 690 for real work, please, help me collect
the ideas and tips for getting it going. Could it be enabling the aqua
LAF? (If so, how does one do that?) GC settings (I tried some that were
suggested in the EAP 689/OSX DP8 Speed Issues thread, but still had
hangs).

thanks!
dylan

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I've tried for about a week to use this combination (691 & DP8) and have decided it is just not doable. The only real gotcha is using arrow keys, especially in dialogs, though also within the editor, usually in combination with meta keys and sometimes even without. In almost every case, it triggers a call to focusNextResponder (or something like that) - run IDEA from the Terminal to see what is going on. This proceeds ad infinitum and requires killing IDEA. If you can avoid arrow keys, you can probably use it. The only other problem I have is with syntax colouring (a bit garbled), but I can live with that. So it is back to 2.6 for now. It's a shame because it is very close to being totally useable.

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I agree with Julian on this. Same scenario, same results, same conclusion. Just this morning, I went back to 2.6.

I have a bug filed with Apple about the syntax coloring issue. Maybe it's related to the flaky Idea menu behavior? At any rate, I've spent a lot of time trying in vain to get 690 usable on OS X, to no avail. I'm not giving up on OSX/Idea -- this combination is really great -- but, unfortunately, I'll have to wait for Apple to get some bugs fixed before I use the latest Idea.

Sigh.

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We're all in the same boat. From what I can tell from the slew of bugs I've submitted, they've all in been fixed in the next DP, which I don't believe is too many days off. So hold on folks we're about to be able to do some work on our macs again.

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It is known problem (with "focusNextResponder ") and is submitted to
tracker. Somebody wrote here, that changing IDEA_POPUP_WEIGHT to "heavy" can
help.

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"Julian Wood" <jiveadmin@jetbrains.com> wrote in message
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I've tried for about a week to use this combination (691 & DP8) and have

decided it is just not doable. The only real gotcha is using arrow keys,
especially in dialogs, though also within the editor, usually in combination
with meta keys and sometimes even without. In almost every case, it triggers
a call to focusNextResponder (or something like that) - run IDEA from the
Terminal to see what is going on. This proceeds ad infinitum and requires
killing IDEA. If you can avoid arrow keys, you can probably use it. The only
other problem I have is with syntax colouring (a bit garbled), but I can
live with that. So it is back to 2.6 for now. It's a shame because it is
very close to being totally useable.
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J

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Out of curiosity and as a PC user...

...what is the 'beach ball'? A Mac thing presumably.

Vince.

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In article <b00r3m$n3m$1@is.intellij.net>,
"Mikhail Yakovlev" <myakovlev@intellij.com> wrote:

It is known problem (with "focusNextResponder ") and is submitted to
tracker. Somebody wrote here, that changing IDEA_POPUP_WEIGHT to "heavy" can
help.


Hey! After doing this I've limped along for a whole day, using IDEA
fairly heavily, without a single beach-ball. Thanks! (And holding my
breath for DP9).

cheers!
dylan

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The 'beach ball' is when the mouse cursor on MacOS X changes to a circle
of spinning colours (almost like a kaleidoscope) indicating that the app
is busy and not responding to user input. It looks like a colourful
beach ball spinning.

Vincent O'Sullivan wrote:

Out of curiosity and as a PC user...

..what is the 'beach ball'? A Mac thing presumably.

Vince.


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Its the Mac's (OS X) version of a watch cursor. OS 9 and early had watch cursors....

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