Bricscad 17 slow when choosing dimension or MTEXT to edit. Why?

John TeSelle
John TeSelle
in 2D Drafting
 Just recently upgraded to V17 from V16 and noticed that sometimes when selecting a dimension or an MTEXT entity to edit, there is a lag of several seconds before editing starts.  Seems to happen the first time, then if I choose another dim or MTEXT right after it does not happen.  Go to do some other stuff, and then it happens again.

So maybe this is a demand-load of some code to do the editing or something?  But is there any way to make BCAD keep the code in memory and not demand load it?  I have BCAD on an SSD so access to the drive should be fast, but still this happens.

Seems that this was not a problem with V16.

Comments

  • John Gaunt
    John Gaunt
    I get that in V15.
    Mainly just the first time, noticeable but not too annoying.
  • martin@enco.us
    martin@enco.us
    Based on previous posts I believe that the delay on first run of the MTEXT editor is because the editor is looking at font filess, but I don't remember the specifics.  I do know that the initial delay is much worse when the fonts are on a network drive -- it is almost 30 seconds in my office.  If I change the pathing in Bricscad to use local fonts on a solid state drive the delay is hardly noticeable.  I don't know enough about the internals of Bricscad to know whether it would be practical to move the initialization of the MTEXT function to a background task that runs when Bricscad starts.  My office generally does not use MTEXT so we would not want to see a solution that adds time to the startup sequence for Bricscad.


  • John TeSelle
    John TeSelle
     Thanks for the font suggestion -- I tried moving all that stuff to the SSD (where Windows is installed also).  Not sure if it helps, though.  The problem is sporadic.  Definitely just now it took a long time editing a dimension so it has not gone away definitively.
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