Re: Editor performance
Re: Editor performance
- Subject: Re: Editor performance
- From: Jörgen Stahle <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 12:03:06 +0200
Still, if the script is large, compiling takes a lot of time with
ScriptDebugger. At least if it involves Indesign (haven't tried other
scripts yet).
Therefore, despite SD:s many great functions, I prefer Script Editor in
most situations.
2018-04-25 14:20 GMT+02:00 Jörgen Stahle <email@hidden>:
> 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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