WinBatch Studio Choppy and Slow
Question:
Anyone else noticed this behaviour? Occasionally, while working in WBStudio, it starts to act choppy when moving
the cursor from line to line or when editing text. I've been monitoring the processes and there's nothing sitting there
churning up any extra processor cycles...I've got no other WB scripts running or anything...so I can't quite figure it out.
Any thoughts? Sometimes a reboot fixes it, sometimes it doesn't. A stop/restart of WBStudio never fixes it.
Answer:
Where are the files you are editing. I think Floppyies or having lots of files open on slow network connectsions might do this.
Slow networks and lots of files open (more than one?) lead to choppiness.
User reply:
3 files open, all referencing UNC paths on the network. OK, so even if this is a known behaviour, why does my moving
from one line to another in an already opened file have to be affected by any network slowdown? Isn't the file cached
locally? It's not like it has to go back to the server for each line like an AS400 terminal session or anything.
Answer:
Apparently the original developers had, before even starting the code for WinBatch Studio, certain "issues" with other
programs modifying files outside of the editor they were working in.
For exapmple some compilers (Not the WinBatch compiler) produce listing files ouf the output run. It is common to
view these files in an editor.
What happens is that you can edit the program in the editor, compile the program to get the listing file, then also
view the file in the editor.
Then you can fix some code and rerun the compiler that updates the listing file.
Unless you remember to close and reopen the listing file in the editor, then you may be viewing an older, out of date listing
file, which, considering the original programmers, led to great confusion.
Thus WinBatch studio *constantly* monitors al the files it has open, checking to see if any of them were modified by some
outside process. This works fine on local hard drives and zippy network connections (I've had 100 file open on a network
with only monor degradation). How ever son a slow network connection this process can make it "choppy".
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Article ID: W16264
File Created: 2005:08:10:10:35:50
Last Updated: 2005:08:10:10:35:50