I was able to get something like this to happen this weekend, too, and
it occurred when I opened a file that started life in FM 5 or so...
and has been rolled forward through all the releases since. Native FM9
files worked fine & fast.
I'm going to save as MIF in 9 later to see if that cleans it up.
Art
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On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com> wrote:
>> How much RAM are you running? And any other memory-hungry aps open at
>> the same time?
>
> I've got 4 GB of RAM (though XP reports on 3.25). Frame is the only program
> open. I've since done some experimenting with my template. Cursor speed was
> fine with this template when it was in FM6 and FM7.1. In FM8, cursor speed
> slowed if the Paragraph Designer, Character Designer, or Table Designer
> windows were open. In FM9, cursor speed is always very slow-- even with all
> windows, pods, and toolbars closed-- EXCEPT when using the Manage Graphics
> workspace. A line that takes 4 seconds to scroll across (using arrow keys)
> in Notepad or Word, takes 19 seconds in FM9 when using any other workspace.
>
> Next, I created a new, blank FM document in FM9, and populated it with a
> paragraph of text. The cursor speed is normal and fast with this document in
> FM9 using the Manage Graphics workspace-- 4 seconds to scroll across a line.
> But using other workspaces, it drops to 6 seconds.
>
> Next, I experimented over the weekend by importing various options from my
> template into this freshw FM9 document to see what effect there might be.
> Cursor speed changed drastically, depending on which options I imported. It
> turns out that importing paragraph, character, or table formats causes
> slowing of the cursor. Other format imports-- variables, page layout, etc.
> had no slowing effect.
>
> This made me think that I had some corrupted paragraph, character, or table
> formats. But I don't think that's it. I took the same new, blank, empty
> document, with _nothing_ imported from my template. I created 30 new
> paragraph styles in FM9 (all the same as the body style, but with a new
> name, using Commands> New Format). Then I tried again. Lo and behold, the
> cursor speed slowed way down.
>
> So it looks to me like this scrolling bug also has some relation to how many
> paragraph (or, character or table definitions) exist. The more there are,
> the slower the cursor. My template has about 100 paragraph styles and 60
> character styles.
>
> Of course, there's still the issue that, using the Manage Graphics workspace
> causes the slowness to go away altogether. It only occurs when using the
> other workspaces.
>
> This behavior is also reproducible on my laptop computer.
>
> Mike Wickham
>
>
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