Vis. Stu 6.0 Cursor and mouse freeze - in the development environment itself.
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PC is an IBM brand desktop, 1 Ghz CPU, 512 meg RAM While I am in the Visual Studio (Vc++ 6.0) environment, sometimes the cursor will stop blinking, the mouse cannot change the cursor position and cannot select text, etc. This will endure for 10 to 20 seconds. Task manager does not report any high CPU usage. Task manager reports plenty of unused RAM. I can switch to another application program and they work fine. There are times when I can work for an hour without incurring this problem, but there are also times when it seems to happen very frequently. This is not a problem with the app I am developing. It is a problem with the Visual Studio environment itself. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Robert
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PC is an IBM brand desktop, 1 Ghz CPU, 512 meg RAM While I am in the Visual Studio (Vc++ 6.0) environment, sometimes the cursor will stop blinking, the mouse cannot change the cursor position and cannot select text, etc. This will endure for 10 to 20 seconds. Task manager does not report any high CPU usage. Task manager reports plenty of unused RAM. I can switch to another application program and they work fine. There are times when I can work for an hour without incurring this problem, but there are also times when it seems to happen very frequently. This is not a problem with the app I am developing. It is a problem with the Visual Studio environment itself. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Robert
Check if another instance of MSDEV.EXE is running in the background. When I had similar problems, killing these "rogue" exes helped. This may or may not be related to addins spawingn a worker thread, I - and others - attributed similar problems to Visual Assist, though this doesn#t seem to be the case anymore with the current version.
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Check if another instance of MSDEV.EXE is running in the background. When I had similar problems, killing these "rogue" exes helped. This may or may not be related to addins spawingn a worker thread, I - and others - attributed similar problems to Visual Assist, though this doesn#t seem to be the case anymore with the current version.
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blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighistThanks for reply Peter, I noticed that the weird behavior seemed to start as I inserted or typed. I went into: Tools | Options | Editor and turned off all of the Auto Completion options and the problem seems to have disappeared. Okay that's great but I really liked those auto completion features :-( Thanks for your help. Robert
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Thanks for reply Peter, I noticed that the weird behavior seemed to start as I inserted or typed. I went into: Tools | Options | Editor and turned off all of the Auto Completion options and the problem seems to have disappeared. Okay that's great but I really liked those auto completion features :-( Thanks for your help. Robert
Strange - I never had problems with built in Intellisense - but I didn't use it very much either.... You may want to give the free trial of VisualAssist[^] a shot. The worst thing that can be said about it: it is not free, and you are likely to become dependent on it :D Especially if you are working on VC6 it does make a big difference.
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