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
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