32499 - Mac Installer: Installer is unresponsive when installing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

Description

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Installer is unresponsive when installing.  At the minimum it should respond to
update, and activate events.

I accidentally clicked in the background prior to the install and could not
bring the dialog forward until the end of the installation.


Found in today's 3/20 beta1 commercial build

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

We give the OS 1 tick every WaitNextEvent().  Since SmartDownload shares the 
main event loop, by experimentation we found that giving the OS anymore time 
significantly slows download and install time.  One possible remedy is to 
increase the number of ticks given to the OS at install time, but leave it at 1 
during download.  So the installer will still appear unresponsive during 
download but will regain responsiveness during install.  Scheduling for M17.

Comment 2

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Ping: M17 has passed.

At the moment, if during the copying process you bring another application to the 
front and then bring the installer back to the front, the installer will fail to 
update even its own display -- only the progress indicators will be updated.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating mac mozilla installer QA contact to me

Comment 4

[timeless]

Expect a minus, If so please add this to the relnote3.

Adding helpwanted per nsbeta3-
I think the suggestion in 2000-03-20 10:33 makes sense, can someone external 
write the patch?

Marking relnote because I'm sure mac users would like to know if mozilla's 
installer crashed or is actually doing something.

Comment 5

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Unsetting missed milestones to aid triage queries.

Comment 6

[Samir Gehani]

Over to Syd for installer bug triage

Comment 7

[Frankie]

Mozilla CFM build is dead; should this bug go with it?

Comment 8

[Frankie]

Quoth Steve Dagley: "The Mac installer code was never Carbonized and there is no
intention to ever change that."

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=yahoo_com-77F6E8.09344011022003%40h-204-29-187-156.netscape.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=avkj4k%24ihs2%40ripley.netscape.com