RevStudio 4 Slow Editor and Docs

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:23 pm

Has anyone else had a problem with the RevStudio 4 Editing window being slow to react to typing and other actions? As well, slow Documents viewer?

3.5 is fine and doesn't seem to have this issue for me, but when I recently updated to 4, I noticed the slow issue in 4 and had to revert back to 3.5 for now.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:44 pm

Hi Garrett,

The script editor is generally slow for me, since version 3 arrived. I don't think this is going to be fixed.

Best,

Mark

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:27 pm

What CPU speed are you running at? I'm wondering if my PC is just a wee bit under powered for it. I'm running at 1.7 Ghz.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:01 pm

Hi Garrett,

I'm using a 2.16Ghz MacBook. I don't think pocessor speed has much to do with it. Even my 8Mhz Mac SE is able to edit plain text at light speed. This shouldn't be an issue at all.

Best,

Mark

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:13 pm

Do you know if anyone's posted about it on RevZilla? I forgot my login for there and haven't looked to see if that's been posted or not.

ale870 · Post by **ale870** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:18 am

I'm working on Linux and I have the same problem. It' s a terrible experience writing scripts!!! It is slooooow!!!

Do you know how can I solve the problem? Yes, I can use external script editor, but it is very annoying writing in an external editor, then copy/paste in the official editor to compile and run. In this way I loose a lot of flexibility that RunRev has!

jsims · Post by **jsims** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 4:01 pm

Hi ale870,

There is a new external script editor from Daniels and Mara (of GLX2 fame) called tRev. You can do all of your development and compiling using it. You still have to layout the UI using the Rev IDE. However, once the UI is laid out, it has a feature called "Snaps" that allows you to interact with your UI while coding using an interactive snapshot of the UI. Very cool.

You don't have to copy any code back to the Rev IDE. It costs $50. I find it well worth that investment.

Admittedly, I have not coded in Rev long enough to develop any in-grained habits with the Rev IDE so the switch to tRev was very easy for me. Personally, I wouldn't want to code without it.

You can find information about it here http://reveditor.com/

Note: I am in no way affiliated with the company or the product. Just a happy user.

ale870 · Post by **ale870** » Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:30 am

Thank you.
I just bought it

but I think that Runtime Revolution (the company) should not "oblige" the developers to buy an external product since built-in editor is terrible

I think they should provide a reliable editor, then if I want, I could buy an external editor for other reasons (e.g.: more functionalities).

One thing more (last one, I promise!): tRev is not very stable, and randomly crash (now I save at every line code modification, but it is very annoying since I need to restart it everytime, and I loose the code, open tabs, etc...).

Thank you.