Opening/importing or saving a large file might take some time. During this time, Freecad is unresponsive and will linger the file dialogue on top of all windows, thus blocking a big part of the screen while Freecad works, rendering the computer unusable while during that time. It is fully acceptable that some operations take a lot of time, but it's very annoying that I cannot do other work while Freecad works. See the attached images.
System information:
OS: Mac OS X
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.10967 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: (detached from 38388cf)
Hash: 38388cf650ef49cbce48af5dd33bdbe2487c8cbe
Python version: 2.7.13
Qt version: 5.6.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.1.0
Should I report this as a bug? As I see it, it's mainly a tweak. This has started to happen recently. It might also be how the operating system (I'm using OS X) handles the file dialogue. And, before someone asks; I'm not able to upload the file I'm using, because it's secret work information. But I think this will happen with any sufficiently large file (the file I'm using is close to 100MB, and it takes about 5 minutes to save it as a new file name).File dialogue lingers when handling large files
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Re: File dialogue lingers when handling large files
Is it the same behaviour with the QT4 version?
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Re: File dialogue lingers when handling large files
I cannot run the QT4 version at all. :S It crashes instantly. This is the report dump that the computer gives me (it says I'm missing some library). I'm trying to use build 10973 I just downloaded from the release page. I have tried to remove the preference files and the Freecad.plist file, but it doesn't help. So I don't know if it's the QT version (but it's definitely a reasonable theory).
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Process: FreeCAD [51351]
Path: /Applications/FreeCAD_qt4.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeCAD
Identifier: FreeCAD
Version: ??? (0.17.10000)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: FreeCAD [51351]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2017-04-30 22:14:00.282 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.12.4 (16E195)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: 6C7D8A78-0279-897D-ECCB-9156506E217E
Sleep/Wake UUID: 3443A5D8-FA76-4822-A87A-9AF7B08AFC73
Time Awake Since Boot: 640000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 51000 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x1] Library missing
Application Specific Information:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @rpath/libFreeCADGui.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/FreeCAD_qt4.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeCAD
Reason: image not found
Binary Images:
0x100700000 - 0x10070cff7 + (??? - 0.17.10000) <2A83F3C0-D152-3FEB-9DBC-AB7CCB1E1095> /Applications/FreeCAD_qt4.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeCAD
0x102ac0000 - 0x102afddc7 dyld (433.5) <8239D0D7-66F6-3C44-A77F-586F74525DA3> /usr/lib/dyld