Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-12-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I meant the prefs file in ~/Library/Preferences/RunRev/LiveCode7.rev > Yes; those were what I've zapped. But for quite some time, I've found it necessary to peridoically delete all the PCDs as they accumulate

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/30/16 10:21 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I suppose it wouldn't hurt to delete your preferences file. Who knows, it might perform some magic. I tried going back to 8.1, which was noticeably better, and 7.1.4,

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I suppose it wouldn't hurt to delete your preferences file. Who knows, it > might perform some magic. > I tried going back to 8.1, which was noticeably better, and 7.1.4, which was *much* better. Deleting the

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to delete your preferences file. Who knows, it might perform some magic. Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On November 30, 2016 6:21:02 PM "Dr. Hawkins"

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
It is *much* worse today. I have no idea where the cycles are going; I don't have anything in the message queue, although that preferences bit keeps showing up. I am seeing delays of about 5-30 seconds when clicking in a field before it responds (focuses), and so forth. The script editor has

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I think that's long. See if it happens with a script only a couple/few > hundred lines. I can't actually test for this; it comes and goes. When it happens, though, I seem to be waiting on a breakpoint in one of

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/25/16 6:11 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm not seeing it. How long is the script? Does it happen on scripts with fewer lines? Not even 6k lines . . . :) I think that's long. See if it happens with a script

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-25 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > It is unlikely that this message is actually bogging down the system. > Indeed this message is a performance optimisation to avoid saving the > preferences file multiple times in quick succession. > I'm not thinking

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
I'm not seeing it. How long is the script? Does it happen on scripts with fewer lines? On 11/25/16 3:31 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I'm not sure that I got the name right, but I'm frequently seeing the IDE go to molasses while debugging, and delays of the better part of a minute from apparently

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-25 Thread Monte Goulding
It is unlikely that this message is actually bogging down the system. Indeed this message is a performance optimisation to avoid saving the preferences file multiple times in quick succession. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 26 Nov. 2016, at 8:31 am, Dr. Hawkins

molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

2016-11-25 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm not sure that I got the name right, but I'm frequently seeing the IDE go to molasses while debugging, and delays of the better part of a minute from apparently stopping and actually settling on the breakpoint. It knows that the script is running. On a while, I clicked the mail logo in the