Re: 9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

2019-09-10 Thread Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
There´s already a bug report from Mark Talluto about this from 15.08.2018 https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21497 describing exact this problem. And he noted also that this is "extra problematic for Windows systems." Matthias >

Re: 9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

2019-09-09 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/9/19 9:57 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: I’ve now modified my stacks to include a closecard handler to clear the large field’s content when exiting. Stack is now much faster to work with and save — far out of proportion to the size savings. I noticed something similar today o

Re: 9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

2019-09-09 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
I’ve now modified my stacks to include a closecard handler to clear the large field’s content when exiting. Stack is now much faster to work with and save — far out of proportion to the size savings. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: 9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

2019-09-09 Thread Giovanni via use-livecode
Hi Geoff, I can confirm this and I reported this several times. The whole IDE (the script editor mainly) is quite unusable on Windows workstations, no matter how many RAM or CPU is installed. Tried all the suggestions on a lot of different Windows workstations without any success. Hope that the L

Re: 9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

2019-09-08 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
Just running a script with large variables, no viewers open, and setting a breakpoint took 20 seconds. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

2019-09-08 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
The ide seems slow in general, but put the contents of a 1 mb 80k line file, and the message box disables the IDE, with multi-second delays. Examine that value as a variable, and similarly but to a lesser extent things slow down. I remember having no trouble doing things like this in 8, maybe ev