Re: Editor performance
Re: Editor performance
- Subject: Re: Editor performance
- From: 2551phil <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 19:48:51 +0700
Both of those behaviours are unusual and indicative of something else in your
environment eating up all your cpu resources.
1. Open Activity Monitor, choose ‘View > All Processes’, click the ‘CPU’ tab,
and click the ‘% CPU’ column so the arrow is pointing downwards.
2. Reproduce the issue in either/both Script Editor / Script Debugger
What’s using up all the cpu?
Some other things to consider: if you’re using an older mac with a mechanical
or Fusion drive and High Sierra on it, how much total RAM and how much free
disk space have you got? 4GB and 20% free is a bare minimum.
Best
Phil
@sqwarq
> On 5 Jan 2018, at 23:34, Jörgen Stahle <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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
> _______________________________________________
> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
> AppleScript-Users mailing list (email@hidden)
> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
> Archives: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users
>
> This email sent to email@hidden
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
AppleScript-Users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
Archives: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users
This email sent to email@hidden