Repainting of screen very slow compared to 8.0.2

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Hi

Something changed in 8.5 compared to 8.0.2 in repainting screen areas. Some parts of the screen now takes 3-4 seconds to repaint, and application is locked meanwhile. This is really annoying :frowning:

brgds Jesper Kiaer

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Subject: What parts?

What parts of the screen in particular do you see such a delay? Is it while in your mail file, in your calendar, in other applications? Is it only certain frames that paint slowly?

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Subject: Example

see this small movie

http://www.nevermind.dk/jezzper/blogDev.nsf/SlowRendering?OpenPage

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Subject: confirming what I saw from the movie…

Hi, the movie was quite short and wanted to make sure what I observed from it is what you are wondering about.

What I saw is that you had focus on Domino Designer and then switch to the Notes Client. I am assuming that you clicked on the “Task Bar” to switch to the client, and the inbox (or Trash as you were in) frame was slow to paint.

If this is correct, we will investigate and I will post a response based on what I find. I am wondering if this is because of the DDE that is new in 8.5. I would also like to confirm from you if you see the Slowness in painting if you Do not bring up DDE, and then have some other application in the front and then switch to the client as you do in this case. Please let us know the results.

Thanks

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Subject: Sort of fixed…

Hi

I was very frustrating upgrading from 8.02 to 8.5 because painting of the screen was very slow.

Because it was so annoying I even tried upgrading to a newer driver for my video card. That helped a lot, and the problem is not very noticeable anymore.

In the small movie you see problem going from the Designer to the Notes client, I can’t remember if it was always was a problem going to the Notes Client.

But something did change between 8.02 and 8.5

brgds Jesper Kiaer

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Subject: I haven’t seen that problem before…

Does it always happen or just occasionally?

Is the CPU (according to task manager) or disk really busy during that time?

Is it long enough period for you to grab an NSD file (go to a Command prompt in the Notes bin directory and enter NSD.EXE) to see what is happening during that period?

Jeff Eisen

Lotus Notes Chief Architect