wangyijie Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 (edited) Hi everyone, I've had this problem with the "define" function for a while, which is, every time I try to define a word or especially a phrase, typing becomes sluggish. I guess it's because Alfred is processing a lot of words in the dictionary, but actually I've never had such problems when I do any other kinds of searches with Alfred, even if there's also a lot of stuff to process. Can anybody help? Thanks a lot! OS X version: El Capitan 10.11.6 Alfred version: 3.2, build 759 Edited November 27, 2016 by wangyijie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wangyijie Posted December 4, 2016 Author Share Posted December 4, 2016 Can anybody help, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 @wangyijie I'm not seeing sluggish behaviour here - what spec Mac do you have, and how many dictionaries / languages do you have installed? Cheers, Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wangyijie Posted December 4, 2016 Author Share Posted December 4, 2016 @Andrew Thanks for your reply! Here's the spec of my Mac: CPU: 2.2 GHz Inter Core i7 RAM: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Harddrive: SSD I've got 6 dictionaries in my app... I don't really think my Mac is too slow for them, though. PS: This problem only happens with Alfred, when I'm typing words; I can type the same word quite smoothly, in the search bar of the Dictionary app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 @wangyijie Dictionary is only showing one definition at a time, Alfred is showing you the definition for every visible word. How much latency are you seeing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wangyijie Posted December 4, 2016 Author Share Posted December 4, 2016 (edited) @Andrew I've just recorded a gif but unfortunately it's too big to upload here... so I uploaded it here: http://www.giphy.com/gifs/3o7TKuDcAI0BJuOFqw Not sure if you can see it. This is an example, sometimes it doesn't take such a long word for it to be slow. Really confusing. Edited December 4, 2016 by wangyijie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wangyijie Posted December 4, 2016 Author Share Posted December 4, 2016 @Andrew and this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 @wangyijie Thanks, with 'slow motion' or 'take your time' I can see a tiny bit of latency on my Mac - I'll add a ticket to see what I can do to eradicate this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendellpbloyd Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 I confirm this behaviour too (I pass by to make quite the same post myself)! I don't know if it is because alfred become generally slower or is this specific function, but there's definitively something wrong with 'define' lately! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 @wendellpbloyd Alfred 3 should be faster than ever, the define function itself is being held up by a macOS API. I have a ticket to move the API access off the main thread which will make things more responsive Cheers, Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 If you update to the 3.3 b787 pre-release, this should now be sorted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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