Slow Menu Access
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Slow Menu Access
I just upgraded Rev. Studio from 2.9 to 3.5 on Mac OS X 10.5.6.
Accessing the Revolution menus when my stack is open takes approx. 25 secs. to drop down. The menus work fine before I open my stack. Also, my own stack menus work OK.
This happened with 3.0 as well, which resulted in my uninstalling it. Before I uninstall 3.5, I'm hoping someone in the forum has a solution.
Thanks, RSeer
Accessing the Revolution menus when my stack is open takes approx. 25 secs. to drop down. The menus work fine before I open my stack. Also, my own stack menus work OK.
This happened with 3.0 as well, which resulted in my uninstalling it. Before I uninstall 3.5, I'm hoping someone in the forum has a solution.
Thanks, RSeer
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Clever sleuthing, Malte, but I'm curious: how did you come to that conclusion?
That would never have occurred to me (then again, I don't use the Rev IDE). I can't imagine what Prefs could be doing that would allow menus to work but slow them down like that.
That would never have occurred to me (then again, I don't use the Rev IDE). I can't imagine what Prefs could be doing that would allow menus to work but slow them down like that.
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Only found it in a painful debugging session at a clients place. And I am still puzzled how a broken prefs stack could cause so much trouble. The mean thing is that it does not happen to occur for everyone (then it could be nailed down what the actual cause is) and it only seems to happen with upgrades to the IDE. We had that one on use- list too
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-r ... 15415.html
When 3.0 came out. I can just imagine that there is some sort of script error in revpreferences, which is in return suppressed by the IDE, but that is just speculation.
Cheers,
Malte
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-r ... 15415.html
When 3.0 came out. I can just imagine that there is some sort of script error in revpreferences, which is in return suppressed by the IDE, but that is just speculation.
Cheers,
Malte
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OK, Malte. To answer your questions:
Yes, it's quicker before I open my, or another person's stack. It definitely seems to involve my stack only.
I don't use any additional plugins.
As far as frontscripts are concerned, I commented out both the preopenstack and openstack handlers. This had no effect.
I also tried adding the pass command to the above handlers, with no effect either.
There's two hours I'll never see again.
I was checking the Read Me doc. and noticed this change to v3.0: Overhauled menu accelerator support
Might this have something to do with my problem, as it started with v3.0?
Also, I do have custom menus, which work fine, but they may be interfering in some way.
If neither of these last two suggestions are the cause, then I'm at a total loss!
Malte, thanks for your help so far. Here's hoping you, or somebody, has the answer.
RSeer
Yes, it's quicker before I open my, or another person's stack. It definitely seems to involve my stack only.
I don't use any additional plugins.
As far as frontscripts are concerned, I commented out both the preopenstack and openstack handlers. This had no effect.
I also tried adding the pass command to the above handlers, with no effect either.
There's two hours I'll never see again.
I was checking the Read Me doc. and noticed this change to v3.0: Overhauled menu accelerator support
Might this have something to do with my problem, as it started with v3.0?
Also, I do have custom menus, which work fine, but they may be interfering in some way.
If neither of these last two suggestions are the cause, then I'm at a total loss!
Malte, thanks for your help so far. Here's hoping you, or somebody, has the answer.
RSeer
Same problem with Media 3.5 -- & no fix with revpreferen
For what it's worth, I'm encountering the same problem with more complex stacks in Rev Media 3.5 -- and deleting the revpreferences.rev file did not solve it.
For example, I have a custom medical office billing program that runs 13 stack files with about 20 total stacks and 165 megs of data -- and opening a menu using 3.5 can take upwards of 15 seconds. On the other hand, on my simple packing list stack I was using earlier in the day, the menus open virtually instantaneously (as do the menus in both stacks using 2.9).
I'm also hoping for a fix -- I can't see upgrading to 3.5 from 2.9 without it.
For example, I have a custom medical office billing program that runs 13 stack files with about 20 total stacks and 165 megs of data -- and opening a menu using 3.5 can take upwards of 15 seconds. On the other hand, on my simple packing list stack I was using earlier in the day, the menus open virtually instantaneously (as do the menus in both stacks using 2.9).
I'm also hoping for a fix -- I can't see upgrading to 3.5 from 2.9 without it.