I DID IT!

Last night, I posted a message about the slowness of HfsBrowser, and as I was writing it, I thought of a solution and proposed it.

Today, I implemented the solution.

Last night, on my AMD Sempron 3200+ at 1.8GHz, it took between 10 and 15 seconds to display a list of 240 items in HfsBrowser.

Today, with exactly the same circumstances, it now takes less than 1 second. Oh, I love working this stuff out.

There are now only two things that don't work - getting a list of local HFS drives (may be because my development machine is x86, and fdisk on x86 formats its results differently to on PPC), and copying files from the HFS partition to any other disk (fairly critical!). The latter is all due to me not being able to get a library to abstract GTK's Save dialog (curiously, I actually have an "Open" dialog ATM).

Anyway, I'll continue hacking around on it, and hopefully have a close-on-completion version up on Google Code tonight! It's just a pity I won't have time to do Xorg Profiles - but maybe the Ubuntu Feisty release will yield better Xorg detection, which is a much more correct solution.