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Re: scrollRangeToVisible is slowing me down


  • Subject: Re: scrollRangeToVisible is slowing me down
  • From: Darkshadow <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:05:13 -0500

On Feb 23, 2005, at 1:42 AM, Adam wrote:

I have an NSTextView acting as a log. While the app is running it is constantly writing lines of text to the NSTextView. During times of heavy traffic the APP lags. I have noticed that one of the biggest overheads is the scrollRangeToVisible method. Without this method the text is added to the end of the NSTextView and the user must scroll down after each line is written. How can I keep the most recently updated area visible to my user without taking a performance hit.

r = NSMakeRange([[terminalDisplayTextView string] length],[[terminalDisplayTextView string] length]);
[terminalDisplayTextView scrollRangeToVisible:r];


Thanks,
Adam


If it's not crucial that the user be able to scroll back to the very beginning of the log session, then you can truncate text from the beginning of the textStorage after it reaches a certain length. That will keep scrollRangeToVisible from taking a long time to update - the less data in the textStorage, the faster scrollRangeToVisible will be (to a point, anyway). Hmm, and you can probably do that, because if it's calling scrollPointToVisible often you won't be able to scroll very far up before something new is logged and the view jumps back to the bottom (unless you coded around that, of course).


I usually use this to make the end range: NSMakeRange([[textView textStorage]length], 0)

I couldn't tell you if that is any faster, though. Maybe by a small amount, since there's two fewer calls, but I doubt that those calls are adding much overhead anyway.

Darkshadow (aka Michael Nickerson)

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