S-L-O-W text entry

[Marty Knapp]

I have a Mac single processor 867mhz G4 and pasting text into anything 
is really slow - be it into a field or the script editor.

Marty Knapp

> One cause for typing to slow down is an infinite loop that is sending 
> more and more and more messages to the pending msgs queue. CPU gets 
> eaten alive.  This may not be your problem, but good to check:
>
> pendingMessages()
>
> in the msg box...
>
> if you re getting back 100's of lines... watch out.
>
>
>
> On May 23, 2006, at 4:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> Timothy Miller wrote:
>>>> Hi group,
>>>>
>>>> Almost every day at one point or another while editing a script or 
>>>> even
>>>> filling in an answer or ask dialog box the text entry slows to a 
>>>> crawl. I remedy
>>>> this by saving and restarting Revolution. What causes this and how 
>>>> do I avoid
>>>> it? I'm on Mac osx.
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>> Orlando
>>> I get that too.
>>
>> Funny, someone wrote me privately last week asking about the same 
>> thing. I never see it so I didn't have an answer. But I just happened 
>> to think, maybe it has something to do with text antialiasing. Has 
>> anyone experimented with that system preference? Does changing it 
>> make a difference?
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