AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

[Richard Gaskin]

Thanks for submitting that report, Tom. I just added some notes there 
that may be helpful.

Do you recall if these crashes occur more frequently if the Project 
Browser is open?

I ask because one of the differences between that IDE component and 
others is that it's not merely much newer, but also makes extensive use 
of relatively new engine features (the "at <size>" option for the 
"export snapshot" command).

Just a hunch, but offhand it's the best hunch I have on this trying to 
think of newer things that might give rise to this issue.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  LiveCode Community Manager
  richard at livecode.org


Tom Bodine wrote:

 > Thanks, Richard. Here are the basics:
 > * Platform Win 7, 64-bit machine
 > * Running LC 7.0.5 (rc2)
 > * Bug report of these crashes:
 > http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15418
 > * The application is a quiz application that lets the user to create
 > quiz content and customize its presentation. It's been in development
 > starting with LC 5.5 about two years ago. I moved it to v7 to make
 > use of the Unicode support, which has worked great. (The app has no
 > database or network functions.)
 >
 > All crashes (so far) have been in the IDE, not in standalones.
 > Crashes are usually triggered just by using the IDE's menubar. For
 > instance, sometimes when several controls are selected and I want
 > to align them, clicking the menubar to access the alignment cmd
 > will trigger a crash. (But not always.)
 > Other times, clicking menubar to access Save cmd will do it. Another
 > crash came from trying to select some output text from the message
 > box.
 >
 >>> Have you found some activities that never crash, and others where
 >>> the crashes occur?
 >
 > That's the maddening thing. Actions that works fine much of the time
 > will suddenly yield a crash. For instance, saving a stack in the the
 > IDE from the menubar. (Now I do all my saves from the keyboard
 > shortcut.) So what all the crashes have in common is an action
 > involving use of the mouse.
 >
 > Thanks for any insights on this.
 >
 > Tom Bodine