Typing is slow
Typing is slow
I'm finding that typing text in the XML editor (the psuedo-wysiwig mode, not the text editor) is ...s...l...o...w. I'm not that great a typist and I can easily type 5 or 6 characters ahead of what appears on screen. By contrast, the edit window I'm typing this in now has no trouble keeping up with me.
I have a 2.66 GHz QuadCore XP machine with 2 GB of RAM, so it's not likely processing power is the issue.
It's pretty annoying. Is there anything I can do to fix it?
Keith
I have a 2.66 GHz QuadCore XP machine with 2 GB of RAM, so it's not likely processing power is the issue.
It's pretty annoying. Is there anything I can do to fix it?
Keith
Re: Typing is slow
With your cursor in a topic, go to View > Show and see if "Enable GDI+ Text Renderer" is enabled. If it is, try disabling it and see if that helps.
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Re: Typing is slow
You can also check if intellisense is the villian - Edit -> Intellisense -> Enable intellisense.
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And by "enable Intellisense" I think Steve meant you want to make sure that Intellisense is NOT enabled.
Re: Typing is slow
Intellisense is off and GDI rendering is not enabled.
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Long topic? Many tables? Real-time virus scanning running?
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Re: Typing is slow
The only time I've seen something that slow on a reasonably fast machine is if I'm accessing the project on a network with very high latency. For example, our projects on our local network are great, but when I connect to our satellite office a few thousand miles away, I want to tear my hair out. The only solution I found was to move the project to a less latency-bound network (for example, put it in an SVN repository and check out local).ksoltys wrote:I'm finding that typing text in the XML editor (the psuedo-wysiwig mode, not the text editor) is ...s...l...o...w. I'm not that great a typist and I can easily type 5 or 6 characters ahead of what appears on screen. By contrast, the edit window I'm typing this in now has no trouble keeping up with me.
I have a 2.66 GHz QuadCore XP machine with 2 GB of RAM, so it's not likely processing power is the issue.
It's pretty annoying. Is there anything I can do to fix it?
Keith
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Re: Typing is slow
...it's a toggled setting...doc_guy wrote:And by "enable Intellisense" I think Steve meant you want to make sure that Intellisense is NOT enabled.
But yes, make sure it is not selected.
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Re: Typing is slow
I am working off of the network, but it's a 100 MBs ethernet and the files are on a fast SAN. I haven't had issues with it before. So I tried working with a local copy of the project and it's much better. Still not as fast as it could be, but acceptable. Over the network, it's painful.Andrew wrote:The only time I've seen something that slow on a reasonably fast machine is if I'm accessing the project on a network with very high latency. For example, our projects on our local network are great, but when I connect to our satellite office a few thousand miles away, I want to tear my hair out. The only solution I found was to move the project to a less latency-bound network (for example, put it in an SVN repository and check out local).
So now I'll have to figure out how I can work with a copy of the project on my local drive without messing up the linking to the common project, which is on the network.
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You have offices in satellites? Cool...Andrew wrote:[...] but when I connect to our satellite office a few thousand miles away, I want to tear my hair out.
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doc_guy wrote:You have offices in satellites? Cool...Andrew wrote:[...] but when I connect to our satellite office a few thousand miles away, I want to tear my hair out.
You could try setting up source control (like SVN) and checking out the files local.So now I'll have to figure out how I can work with a copy of the project on my local drive without messing up the linking to the common project, which is on the network.
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Re: Typing is slow
I'm trying to get that set up - have been for a while, actually, but since SVN isn't our default source control system, it's taking a while to get it through the IT maze ....Andrew wrote:
You could try setting up source control (like SVN) and checking out the files local.So now I'll have to figure out how I can work with a copy of the project on my local drive without messing up the linking to the common project, which is on the network.
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Re: Typing is slow
It is the network that's slowing it down. What worked for me in the end was using a Windows Briefcase and keeping it on the local drive - not ideal, and you do have to check from time to make sure the files have been updated, but it did help. That said, even when the files are in the normal local My Projects folder, I find that Flare is slow to react to what I regard as normal touch-typing speed.ksoltys wrote:I'm trying to get that set up - have been for a while, actually, but since SVN isn't our default source control system, it's taking a while to get it through the IT maze ....Andrew wrote:
You could try setting up source control (like SVN) and checking out the files local.So now I'll have to figure out how I can work with a copy of the project on my local drive without messing up the linking to the common project, which is on the network.
Keith
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