IDE Hang

[Attila Kovacs 629]

I have news regarding to IDE hang. I took the time (lot) to attach the frozen IDE to a debugger and find followings:

 

there is a infinite message loop, affected are

tlbEntityInsight

NameBtn

some child controls of NameBtn without any component name nor text

TypeNameBtn

some child controls of TypeNameBtn without any component name nor text

 

the infinite message loop is a variation of these messages:

 

1328 TCM_ADJUSTRECT
46     WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING
7c     WM_STYLECHANGING
7d     WM_STYLECHANGED
 

1328 will be triggered from:

function TCustomTabControl.GetDisplayRect: TRect;

 

Looks like this whole entity thingy is on: TAppBuilder->TEditorDockPanel->TEditWindow->TPanel

 

Also, I have this EntityInsight turned off in the configuration. Actually I'm only using the open unit function from MMX.

It happens rarely, especially on fast finger actions like formatting, saving quickly, and meanwhile the mouse is over an entity in the editor and tries to evaluate it.

But then the IDE won't recover from this message loop.

 

For the record, there is always a chance that other things are also playing a role,  especially when we are debugging windows messages, so take this info

as an observation, maybe it helps finding something.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 21, 2021 by Attila Kovacs

[Pat Foley 51]

 

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meanwhile the mouse is over an entity in the editor

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6255248/controlclick-on-function-is-not-working-in-delphi-xe    

 

Just hovering over a unpathed unit in an uses clause can cause a quick ending.  Issue with browsing path?

 

The form screen position button in Design just happens to be in Bermuda triangle hot zone lower right hand code scrollbar edge.  

 

 

Edited February 21, 2021 by Pat Foley
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[Attila Kovacs 629]

Well, after more than a week without MMX (removed) I can say that not just there is no more IDE Hang's but the IDE become faster.

I suspect, that even after turning off the entityinsight, it sets itself to invisible but still working in the background for some reason.

On the other hand I'm missing some functions very badly.

Edited March 2, 2021 by Attila Kovacs

[Pat Foley 51]

TAppBuilder
...
WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.1629f15_r56_ad1 

 

This form found in search menu item Find Class shows whatever namespace is scoped in the editor.

Once a "class" or whatever is in the namespace is selected it moves to it in the edit window. The find

references can then be clicked.  These "gems" would be nice if they didn't hang the program.     

[FredS 138]

4 hours ago, Attila Kovacs said:

IDE become faster

Installing MMX15 slowed down everything, had to manually change prior Delphi versions back to 14.. plus those new images aren't my taste to be polite 🙂

[Attila Kovacs 629]

@FredS Oh, thx for saying, didn't know that there was a cut. I'll go with v14 too.