Script Editor Slow on Windows

JJS jjs at krutt.org
Fri Jan 18 14:07:26 EST 2019


i don't have does issues on my win10 and lc902

i added .rev and .livecode to be excluded in Windows Defecnder and added 
the livecode.exe to be excluded.

the thing i do see is that the line nr's in the scripteditor sometimes 
seem to stall while i scroll up or down the script. switching to another 
script and back seems to refresh it.

Another thing i do is before opening an other project stack to work on, 
closing the IDE and restart it

Op 18-1-2019 om 12:44 schreef Andre Alves Garzia via use-livecode:
> Ralph,
>
> The IDE is so bad under windows that sometimes I dust off my 2013 
> macbook air just to use it there for some hours and fix whatever I 
> need to fix in my projects.
>
> You're right, there is no recipe, it is "degradation over time" and 
> time in here is measured in minutes and few hours. This happens 
> regardless of plugins and fancy features such as autocompletion. Here 
> in my install I face the following problems:
>
> * script editor lag. I am a slow typer and yet sometimes, the editor 
> will lag a lot behind my coding.
>
> * script editor missing keystrokes. The lag above sometimes make the 
> editor lose keystrokes causing my code to be broken.
>
> * IDE fails to drag and drop controls or respond to shortcuts. 
> Dragging tools from the tools palette into my stacks sometimes doesn't 
> work. Selecting a control and using common keyboard shortcuts to open 
> scripts or inspectors also doesn't work.
>
> This makes using LC a pain and there is no recipe. I've even picked a 
> plain new install without any plugin and it still happens over time. 
> My machine is a Surface Pro 4 running Window 10, there is no bloatware 
> or machine problem, it is all made nice by Microsoft, I don't face 
> this kind of problem in any other language or IDE I use here.
>
> I suspect that some IDE internal event message or loop is blocking but 
> there is no way to tell.
>
> On 17/01/2019 19:17, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote:
>> A couple of things I have observed in Win 10 LC 9.0.2.
>> 1) Scroll wheel starts scrolling 100s of lines with one wheel rotation
>> detent. The only way to fix is to restart IDE.
>> 2) SE Font is bold 10% of the time when opening LC. The only way to 
>> fix is
>> to restart IDE(maybe more than once).
>> 3) After working in the IDE for a while then using breakpoints(I think),
>> every time I do a Ctrl S the IDE will do a variety of things. Not all at
>> once but sometimes all at once. The only way to fix is to restart 
>> IDE. Ctrl
>> S does these things sometimes:
>>   a) Opens up the message box and execute the last command.
>>   b) The confirm IDE save version dialog is not presented instead the 
>> last
>> answer dialog used is displayed without any buttons. Sometimes keyboard
>> returns will let it move on and complete the save maybe 50% of the time.
>>   c) The open message box has a one line field with a horizontal 
>> scrollbar
>> scroll appear and is not active and all other windows are locked up.
>>   d) Blank "new script editor" window opens and is non functional.
>>   e) All of the above but flashing and repeating 10s of times(sometimes
>> forever). Look like a 1970's light show. I get flashbacks just 
>> looking at
>> it. The message boxes and answer dialogs are flashing on and off with 
>> 100%
>> cpu.
>> 4) IDE goes into a loop (now and again).
>> 5) IDE quits (not often).
>> 6) Save stacks take 10 seconds or more with the Windows "not 
>> responding" in
>> the top bar using 100% cpu until saving status box appears. The 
>> status box
>> is only up moment. The actual save operation take a 1/2 second after 
>> that.
>> 7) Undo's are sketchy at best. Sometimes the work as expected other 
>> times
>> some other tab's script is changed.
>> 8) Put too many lines into the message box and the same as Ctrl S issues
>> start to pop up.
>> 9) The IDE goes into loop and locks up for no reason using 100% cpu.
>>
>> I can't make any recipes for a QCC report. I can't see any pattern. 
>> Simple
>> stacks usually don't have any of the above problems except for the IDE
>> scroll wheel and font problems so my larger stacks are doing 
>> something that
>> is whacking out the IDE in v9 that did not happen pre v9.
>>
>> All this being said I still get more done with LC than any other 
>> language I
>> have ever used so it's still a net large gain in productivity.
>>   I don't know what I can do to help.
>>
>> Ralph DiMola
>> IT Director
>> Evergreen Information Services
>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>>
>>
>>
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