Script Editor Performance

[David Bovill]

My guess on this is that it is a basic field issue. One of the most
frequent crashes I get is if in testing I put some data in the msg box. If
the data is unusually large, everything jams. Only a force-quit gets you
out of that.

I wonder if when we have native field objects - that this might be the real
long term solution - though I don't know what the idea with regard that is
for fields on desktop - but certainly leaning on the OS to handle stuff
like that without the performance issues for large amounts of data could be
the "fix" that we need / is planned?

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 12:28, bob--- via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> The script editor in Livecode is absolutely horrid performance wise. There
> plenty of issues but the scrolling performance bothers me to no end — AGAIN!
>
> I develop on a 3 year old iMac 27” with 24G of ram. The Livecode IDE is by
> far the worst IDE/Script Editor that I use (sorry to say). I’m finding
> lately that developing in Livecode to be a frustrating experience compared
> to other tools that I use (yes I know and use Atom and Sublime).
>
> I just searched quality.livecode.com <http://quality.livecode.com/> and
> see no bugs open on performance issues related to the Script Editor. This
> surprises me. Maybe I’m just not finding the bug reports??
>
> I went in and looked at some code I fixed a couple of years ago. Based on
> what’s been done, there’s a difference of opinion between myself and the
> team that maintains the Script Editor code. I can see that changes have
> been made that cause the UX issues I’m seeing (along with a bug in the code
> that I’ve found). I’ve changed the code to the way I think things should be
> done on my local machine and LC script editor is almost usable again.
>
> I’d love to get some feedback on one of my fixes. I’m not seeing any
> issues but I need to get feedback across a few machines (Windows/Linux) to
> confirm my changes before creating a pull request. If you are an advanced
> user and are willing to hack up a file within the Application bundle, shoot
> me a note and I’ll get you one specific change I made that I think you’ll
> agree is a benefit. In 1 week I’ve not seen any negative side effect.
> Fingers crossed...
>
> Bob H.
>
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