Script Editor Slow on Windows

[JJS]

haha did i say does?

i mean those....a well almost wrote the dutch pronouncing


Op 18-1-2019 om 20:07 schreef JJS via use-livecode:
> 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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