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Bug 315904

Summary:	Text fields are slow
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Greg Watson <g.watson>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Project Inbox <swt-triaged>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Scott Kovatch <skovatch>
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	prakash, skovatch
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
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Description Greg Watson

2010-06-06 10:41:27 EDT

I recently noticed that multi-line text fields have become really slow. There is a delay when I type so that I can easily type faster than the characters appear. 

To reproduce, open a multi-line text field, such as the PDE schema editor or a mylyn bug report and enter text quickly.

Platform: eclipse-SDK-3.6RC3-macosx-cocoa-x86_64

Comment 1 Prakash Rangaraj

2010-06-07 00:49:01 EDT

Assigning to SWT for investigation.

Comment 2 Scott Kovatch

2010-06-07 11:38:25 EDT

Moving to Cocoa. Looking into this now...

Comment 3 Scott Kovatch

2010-06-07 11:54:34 EDT

Can't reproduce this at the moment with the mylyn new task/bug report window. I can type into the description field fairly quickly and it keeps up with me.

Comment 4 Greg Watson

2010-06-08 09:55:49 EDT

I renamed this bug since it affects any text fields, not just multi-line.

My machine is fairly slow (particularly since I started using cocoa 64-bit) so this could be contributing to the problem. However, I don't see the problem when I use an editor like the java editor. It seems like text fields are much slower.

You might be able to reproduce the problem by loading up your machine with some other work.

Comment 5 Greg Watson

2011-11-12 17:28:01 EST

I'm no longer seeing this in 3.7. or 3.8.