Re: Editor performance
Re: Editor performance
- Subject: Re: Editor performance
- From: Jörgen Stahle <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:20:21 +0200
Well, well
Now I have learned my lesson: Never include emojis as they are in the
code...
That was the reson for the ”jumping around”-issue.
Now I use unicode references instead.
J
2018-01-05 17:34 GMT+01:00 Jörgen Stahle <email@hidden>:
> Hi, guys.
>
>
> What Applescript editor do you use? Do you have great performance- or
> GUI-problems when editing large scripts?
>
>
> I have been hanging on to Apples Script Editor since the beginning of
> time. But since OS X Yosemite it has been very annoying to work with when
> editing very large scripts. What happens is that the text contents is
> jumping around in the window in a very crazy way after a certain amount of
> editing/compiling och text searching in large scripts. The focus of the
> window gets completely lost. Sometimes the ”jumping around” stops after a
> while when I do something like selecting all content. Sometimes it never
> stops until I quit the editor och open the script again - and then soon
> starts again. The intensity of this problem has been varying between
> updates of the OS/editor – but since MacOS High Sierra I fint it more or
> less impossible to use with larger scripts.
>
>
> Therefore I recently shifted to ScriptDebugger. First I wondered why I
> didn’t do that earlier. It has so many useful functions that I really
> missed before, some of them without knowing it.
>
>
> But when I started to work with my larger scripts I got disappointed,
> since editing became extremely slow after some editing: After pressing just
> one letter key och pasting a word the spinning beach ball shows up and I
> have to wait many seconds, at least, for the letter to be printed in the
> window. Writing simple sentences can take minutes. And it gets slower and
> slower the more I work with the script.
>
>
> So now I have two Applescript editors – both more or less impossible to
> use effectively for editing large scripts, for different reasons: Script
> Editor is as quick as always – but have, since a few years back, this crazy
> window content behavior. ScriptDebugger have a perfectly stable window
> content focus – but gets stuck in performance mud.
>
>
> Both problems are as much time consuming as the other. I can’t decide what
> one is worst.
>
>
> Now of course I wonder if everybody else have the same problem – or if
> anybody have a cure for any of the editors.
>
>
> I use the latest versions of both editors on MacOS High Sierra (10.13.2).
>
>
> Sorry for my bad English!
>
>
> Jörgen
>
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