Re: Editor performance
Re: Editor performance
- Subject: Re: Editor performance
- From: Jörgen Stahle <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 12:08:56 +0200
And still, editing large scripts involves long spinning ball-delays between
every key stroke with SD – increasingly after the the script is opened and som
editing is done. This is not the case at all with SE.
2018-05-03 12:03 GMT+02:00 Jörgen Stahle <email@hidden>:
> 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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