Thanks Matthias. I am not using any 3rd party text tools or plug-ins. If anyone else can confirm this issue I will submit a bug report.
Henry > On Mar 24, 2021, at 3:17 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Henry, > > i had a similar problem already with previous LC releases. In my case a 3rd > party tool called Popclip was the culprit. > Popclip is automatically activated as soon as some text is selected. So when > i selected text in the editor some strange things happened, for example the > whole text was selected and so on. > Fortunately Popclip allows to exclude apps from being monitored by it, so i > just had to add Livecode to the list of apps that should be excluded from > PopClip actions. > > > Regards, > > > - > Matthias Rebbe > Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > >> Am 24.03.2021 um 22:58 schrieb HENRY LOWE via use-livecode >> <[email protected]>: >> >> Thanks Richard. I turned off the line number option and the problem still >> occurs. I can reproduce this with any script that extend beyond the bottom >> of the script editor pane. >> >> Select the first line of a script and then (holding the mouse button down) >> continue dragging down to select additional lines until you are reach the >> last visible line. Continue to drag down to get the script editor to >> autoscroll and the scrolling now continues automatically until the entire >> script is selected. Cannot stop the scroll until the entire script is >> selected. >> >> Looks like a new bug to me. >> >> Henry >> >>> On Mar 24, 2021, at 2:45 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Henry Lowe wrote: >>> >>>> If I select text in the LC Script Editor and then drag down to select >>>> additional text (e.g. I want to select an entire handler), the editor >>>> starts to autoscroll and does not stop until it reaches the end of the >>>> script text. Nothing I do stops the scrolling and text selection. I am >>>> locked out of LC, which is unresponsive. Activity Monitor shows that >>>> LC is using 100% of the CPU while in this ‘autoscrolling’ state. Once >>>> the scroll reaches the end of the text in the editor pane, I get >>>> control of LC again. >>>> >>>> This is only happening with a very large script 5900 lines of text >>>> (238K). I am in the progress of breaking this script up into a series >>>> of smaller scripts. >>>> >>>> I suspect that this issue is related to the large amount of text in >>>> the script but have not seen this before with this script until I >>>> updated to LC 9.6.2 (rc3). >>>> >>>> Can anyone confirm this issue? >>> >>> I have seen similar issues on Ubuntu. I believe it may be related to the >>> complicated way the line number field is kept in sync. >>> >>> The only workaround I've tested is writing my own script editor, thankfully >>> subsidized by a generous soul who commissioned it. It's not yet ready for >>> prime time, though, so I have no immediate solution for LC SE users. >>> >>> >>>> Also, is there an upper limit to the size of a LC script? >>> >>> There should not be, at least within reasonable memory limits. >>> >>> And if there were, it shouldn't be anywhere near as short as 5900 lines. >>> I've been stress-testing my with 20k-line scripts. >>> >>> The LC field object is quite good. Any script editor using it should be >>> quite good too. >>> >>> -- >>> Richard Gaskin >>> Fourth World Systems >>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web >>> ____________________________________________________________________ >>> [email protected] http://www.FourthWorld.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
