Snippets hang UI
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Impact: Medium
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 31
- Forks
- 14
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
2144-dev Personal, Windows
import time
time.sleep(20)
Will render the UI entirely unresponsive. Obviously sleeping in a snippet like this is stupid, but it's the same behavior as iterating over a bunch of data.
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing how Python snippets are executed and how that work interacts with the Binja UI thread; the issue provides a reproducer using time.sleep(20). Confirm the current behavior, then define completion as keeping the UI responsive while a long-running snippet executes, including when it iterates over substantial data.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop, devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100