Dialog editor speed problem
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I'm using VC++6, with service pack 3, WinTabs and Visual Assist, in Windows 2000 on a 1GHz machine with 392k RAM and about 12Gb of free HDD space... (i.e. there appears to be no particular physical restrictions on speed.) However the dialog editor is extremely sluggish - it can take as long as 3-6 seconds for the right-mouse-button menu to open over a dialog, or for clicking on a button to highlight it. This seems unreasonably slow! :confused: My .rc file is only about 60k, which doesn't seem too big to me? Is this a common complaint? If so does anyone have any ideas about how this might be speeded up please? Many thanks, Sam
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I'm using VC++6, with service pack 3, WinTabs and Visual Assist, in Windows 2000 on a 1GHz machine with 392k RAM and about 12Gb of free HDD space... (i.e. there appears to be no particular physical restrictions on speed.) However the dialog editor is extremely sluggish - it can take as long as 3-6 seconds for the right-mouse-button menu to open over a dialog, or for clicking on a button to highlight it. This seems unreasonably slow! :confused: My .rc file is only about 60k, which doesn't seem too big to me? Is this a common complaint? If so does anyone have any ideas about how this might be speeded up please? Many thanks, Sam
I've had that happen, it seems like if you have a LOT of dialogs, it slows the whole thing down. I didn't figure out a good way of fixing it. Integrating with source control also causes slowdowns at odd times... do you have source control (PVCS, VSS, whatever) integrated into Visual? Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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I'm using VC++6, with service pack 3, WinTabs and Visual Assist, in Windows 2000 on a 1GHz machine with 392k RAM and about 12Gb of free HDD space... (i.e. there appears to be no particular physical restrictions on speed.) However the dialog editor is extremely sluggish - it can take as long as 3-6 seconds for the right-mouse-button menu to open over a dialog, or for clicking on a button to highlight it. This seems unreasonably slow! :confused: My .rc file is only about 60k, which doesn't seem too big to me? Is this a common complaint? If so does anyone have any ideas about how this might be speeded up please? Many thanks, Sam
Try closing Visual Studio, go to the project directory, and delete the following files: *.ncb and *.aps (and maybe the *.opt). Then restart VS... Chris _"No one goes to hell because of their sin, but because of rejecting God's method of salvation: His Son's life for yours..."
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams_
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Try closing Visual Studio, go to the project directory, and delete the following files: *.ncb and *.aps (and maybe the *.opt). Then restart VS... Chris _"No one goes to hell because of their sin, but because of rejecting God's method of salvation: His Son's life for yours..."
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams_
Thanks for your advice. I've tried deleting the .ncb, .aps and .opt files as you suggested. They totalled about 1M between them. At first the results seemed encouraging, but after half a dozen clicks in the dialog editor it was back to being very slow again. The regenerated .ncb/opt files are about 50% of the size that they were before though. I'm not using PCVS or VSS. Maybe I just need to learn to be patient! Thanks, Sam
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Try closing Visual Studio, go to the project directory, and delete the following files: *.ncb and *.aps (and maybe the *.opt). Then restart VS... Chris _"No one goes to hell because of their sin, but because of rejecting God's method of salvation: His Son's life for yours..."
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams_
There are a total of 37 dialogs, which I'd not say is a LARGE number? S
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I'm using VC++6, with service pack 3, WinTabs and Visual Assist, in Windows 2000 on a 1GHz machine with 392k RAM and about 12Gb of free HDD space... (i.e. there appears to be no particular physical restrictions on speed.) However the dialog editor is extremely sluggish - it can take as long as 3-6 seconds for the right-mouse-button menu to open over a dialog, or for clicking on a button to highlight it. This seems unreasonably slow! :confused: My .rc file is only about 60k, which doesn't seem too big to me? Is this a common complaint? If so does anyone have any ideas about how this might be speeded up please? Many thanks, Sam
Ok -- try this (MSDN KB Ref # Q236399); close VS, delete the *.clw file, reopen VS, then regenerate the clw file by starting up the class wizard... Good Luck! Chris _"No one goes to hell because of their sin, but because of rejecting God's method of salvation: His Son's life for yours..."
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." --Samuel Adams_