Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-12 Thread John Sheahan

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 05:25:00PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
 On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:57:33AM +1000, John Sheahan wrote:
 
   what is slow, be more specific please?
  
  for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
  select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.
 
 Current CVS ? We recently fixed a silly in this area.

no, 2 weeks old. I just did a cvs update and recompiled - its
*much* faster now.I'll use that version for a while.
Thanks, john
  



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-12 Thread John Sheahan

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 05:25:00PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
 On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:57:33AM +1000, John Sheahan wrote:
 
   what is slow, be more specific please?
  
  for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
  select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.
 
 Current CVS ? We recently fixed a silly in this area.

no, 2 weeks old. I just did a cvs update and recompiled - its
*much* faster now.I'll use that version for a while.
Thanks, john
  



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-12 Thread John Sheahan

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 05:25:00PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:57:33AM +1000, John Sheahan wrote:
> 
> > > what is slow, be more specific please?
> > 
> > for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
> > select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.
> 
> Current CVS ? We recently fixed a silly in this area.

no, 2 weeks old. I just did a cvs update and recompiled - its
*much* faster now.I'll use that version for a while.
Thanks, john
  



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-10 Thread John Levon

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:57:33AM +1000, John Sheahan wrote:

  what is slow, be more specific please?
 
 for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
 select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.

Current CVS ? We recently fixed a silly in this area.

 I can also if it helps. mailed direct?

Please

john
-- 
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-10 Thread John Levon

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:57:33AM +1000, John Sheahan wrote:

  what is slow, be more specific please?
 
 for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
 select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.

Current CVS ? We recently fixed a silly in this area.

 I can also if it helps. mailed direct?

Please

john
-- 
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-10 Thread John Levon

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 09:57:33AM +1000, John Sheahan wrote:

> > what is slow, be more specific please?
> 
> for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
> select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.

Current CVS ? We recently fixed a silly in this area.

> I can also if it helps. mailed direct?

Please

john
-- 
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread Andre Poenitz

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:12:23AM +0200, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
 Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
 We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.

Quite a few table related problems have been fixed for 1.2.1 which should
come out rather soonish. I could try to create you a .rpm from CVS if you
do not want to compile yourself. Shall I?

 Is this a general problem?

If you mean do other people experience these problems: Yes.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread Herbert Voss

Eildert Groeneveld wrote:

 as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when 
 LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a 
 larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and 


1.1.6 - 1.2.0 was a major step forward, including some problems 

 slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX.


what is slow, be more specific please?

 This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. 
 When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly.
 We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3


can you give an example-file?

 Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
 We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.


1.2.1 will come up in the next week(s)
you still have the chance to load the 1.2.1cvs

 Is this a general problem?


no

 Institute for Animal Science
 Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany


that's cool :-) I was born 10 km away from there

Herbert




-- 
http://www.lyx.org/help/




Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread John Levon

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:33:46AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:

  Is this a general problem?
 
 If you mean do other people experience these problems: Yes.

Actually it sounds more like he's got the wrong xforms version or
similar. Tables are not that unstable; Michael S would have been a lot
louder if they were.

In fact most of the core code is less crash-prone than in 1.1.6.

regards
john

-- 
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread John Sheahan

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:36:13AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
 
 
 what is slow, be more specific please?

for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.

this is on a 1000mhz athlon, I think some table operations are slow. 

 We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3
also 

 
 
 can you give an example-file?

I can also if it helps. mailed direct?
John



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread Andre Poenitz

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:12:23AM +0200, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
 Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
 We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.

Quite a few table related problems have been fixed for 1.2.1 which should
come out rather soonish. I could try to create you a .rpm from CVS if you
do not want to compile yourself. Shall I?

 Is this a general problem?

If you mean do other people experience these problems: Yes.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread Herbert Voss

Eildert Groeneveld wrote:

 as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when 
 LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a 
 larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and 


1.1.6 - 1.2.0 was a major step forward, including some problems 

 slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX.


what is slow, be more specific please?

 This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. 
 When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly.
 We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3


can you give an example-file?

 Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
 We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.


1.2.1 will come up in the next week(s)
you still have the chance to load the 1.2.1cvs

 Is this a general problem?


no

 Institute for Animal Science
 Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany


that's cool :-) I was born 10 km away from there

Herbert




-- 
http://www.lyx.org/help/




Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread John Levon

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:33:46AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:

  Is this a general problem?
 
 If you mean do other people experience these problems: Yes.

Actually it sounds more like he's got the wrong xforms version or
similar. Tables are not that unstable; Michael S would have been a lot
louder if they were.

In fact most of the core code is less crash-prone than in 1.1.6.

regards
john

-- 
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread John Sheahan

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:36:13AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
 
 
 what is slow, be more specific please?

for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.

this is on a 1000mhz athlon, I think some table operations are slow. 

 We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3
also 

 
 
 can you give an example-file?

I can also if it helps. mailed direct?
John



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread Andre Poenitz

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:12:23AM +0200, Eildert Groeneveld wrote:
> Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
> We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.

Quite a few table related problems have been fixed for 1.2.1 which should
come out rather soonish. I could try to create you a .rpm from CVS if you
do not want to compile yourself. Shall I?

> Is this a general problem?

If you mean "do other people experience these problems": Yes.

Andre'

-- 
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread Herbert Voss

Eildert Groeneveld wrote:

> as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when 
> LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a 
> larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and 


1.1.6 -> 1.2.0 was a major step forward, including some problems 

> slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX.


what is slow, be more specific please?

> This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. 
> When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly.
> We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3


can you give an example-file?

> Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
> We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.


1.2.1 will come up in the next week(s)
you still have the chance to load the 1.2.1cvs

> Is this a general problem?


no

> Institute for Animal Science
> Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany


that's cool :-) I was born 10 km away from there

Herbert




-- 
http://www.lyx.org/help/




Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread John Levon

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:33:46AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:

> > Is this a general problem?
> 
> If you mean "do other people experience these problems": Yes.

Actually it sounds more like he's got the wrong xforms version or
similar. Tables are not that unstable; Michael S would have been a lot
louder if they were.

In fact most of the core code is less crash-prone than in 1.1.6.

regards
john

-- 
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle



Re: Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-09 Thread John Sheahan

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:36:13AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> 
> 
> what is slow, be more specific please?

for me, within a ~50 page file, lyx 1.2.1cvs can take 10 seconds to 
select a column of just 6 rows in  simple table.

this is on a 1000mhz athlon, I think some table operations are slow. 

> >We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3
also 

> 
> 
> can you give an example-file?

I can also if it helps. mailed direct?
John



Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-08 Thread Eildert Groeneveld

Hello everyone,
as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when 
LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a 
larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and 
slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX.
This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. 
When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly.
We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3

Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.

Is this a general problem?

greetings

Eildert Groeneveld
==
Institute for Animal Science
Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany
Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 92579
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/
==



Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-08 Thread Eildert Groeneveld

Hello everyone,
as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when 
LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a 
larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and 
slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX.
This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. 
When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly.
We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3

Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.

Is this a general problem?

greetings

Eildert Groeneveld
==
Institute for Animal Science
Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany
Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 92579
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/
==



Instability of Lyx-1.2.0

2002-08-08 Thread Eildert Groeneveld

Hello everyone,
as an ardent usr of LyX I was very happy to use all those new features when 
LyX-1.2.0 came out. Now we are in the process of advertizing its use on a 
larger scale at our institution. Only problem is: LyX is very unstable and 
slow so that we will scare people away more than convince them to use LyX.
This instability pertains to mostly to table as does the really slow speed. 
When cutting and pasting for instance lyx bombs out kind of regularly.
We have a RedHat 7.3 system with xforms-0.89-3

Also, there do not seem to be rpms of a higher patchlevel around.
We have lyx-1.2.0-1 installed.

Is this a general problem?

greetings

Eildert Groeneveld
==
Institute for Animal Science
Mariensee 31535 Neustadt Germany
Tel : (+49)(0)5034 871155 Fax : (+49)(0)5034 92579
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.tzv.fal.de/~eg/
==