IDE Interference (not just a another rant)

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Dear fellow RR developpers...

I just noticed 4 days ago that a minute stack was really slow.

Tracking it down wasn't much help because the message 
watcher threw me off thinking the problem was the TableManager 
(sorry Jan)... Besides the fact that the message watcher is nearly 
useless, it throws in all the RR's messages to confuse you and 
doesn't tell you where the message came from... The more stacks
or windows (scritp editors for ex.) you open, the more messages you
get to confuse you...

Anyway, my stack was really slow all the time and the problem was
untraceable... Then I noticed that a message suspendstack was
saving the stack at each suspendstack... Nothing wrong there
except that whenever I went to the revprops or revtools or revmenu 
palette, my stack would get a suspendstack event!!!!!!!!!!

Since RR is ultra slow, ultra-cpu-hog, I couldn't be get more and
more irritated... On a 2.8 MHz P4 512MBs, this is a shame, and 
a real bummer for productivity...

Why would a 10 K stack take 5 seconds to save and hog your CPU
at 55 % (or 99% hog on a 1.8MHz P4...)?

IS THAT NORMAL?

This is NOT normal behavior and I believe we are all affected!

Any solutions or suggestions to avoid this kind of IDE interference?

The message watcher is also showing lots of events that dont
seem pertinent to the environment/moment - lots of reveditscript
messages (a script window is opened) but im not editing the script 
currently. Incidentally this is the @%)*@&#)%*( message I cannot 
use in the plug-ins to use my own script editor which despite all my
bug reporting is still light years ahead of RR's (not to mention an
improved message and variable watcher that really work in MC
for years now)

Obviously RR's plug-ins are  irrelevant and futile since they haven't 
been fixed for years...

What is really frustrating is that all these messages interfere with 
normal stack operations - suspendstack in the occurence... 

My question is whether there is a way to STOP them and have a 
minimum environment like MC in order to trace real stack problems 
and not RR's interference? Note the debug mode is needed and 
can't be done without.

- No offense meant - sorry for the lack of professional wording, I 
just wanted to say what I think in all honesty and without any 
dumbfounded unrealistic diplomacy. You and I are loosing 
precious time due to these problems and most dont notice...

Last but not least, please reply to this thread if you want RR's IDE
to improve - Im sure RR's great developpers will notice that 
something IS wrong... Quality is not just a GUI feature... Unfortunately
this is not a real bugzilla matter... and I would assume it would be
disregarded as a functional requirements. So a little public motion
may help us all I hope...

Regards, and long live RR!
Xavier

PS: when will this subscription list adhere to standards and strip the
CC's and other non-subscription list emails? Do you like SPAM, and
mis-forwards to the wrong persons? I suppose it's normal... ;)


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