Quick FX color swatch dialog popup delayed/missing

[orangefizz]

In the Quick FX tab, when I click the swatch beside "Color", either nothing happens or there is a long delay before the dialog appears—sometimes with a spinning beach ball. It sometimes only appears after nudging the mouse.

[Chris B]

Hey orangefizz,

It's pretty much instant for me. I've tried most of the options at least half a dozen times each with no issue. Do you have Metal enabled? Any chance of a quick screen recording? 

[orangefizz]

Hey Chris—just tested this again after test-restarting for a separate issue and the restart solved this issue too. Seems there are memory/caching issues with docs that had many edits. I'd guess this would be causing other app issues also.

Metal mode is on, apparently.

[Chris B]

Thanks. In this case, I'll leave my documents open overnight and see if I can reproduce the issue tomorrow. It may be related to the other issue you've raised about switching tabs.

[orangefizz]

It may be necessary to perform work on those documents—ie. a long history—vs just leaving them open. Something about long sessions on open docs seems to be causing lag.

[Chris B]

Well I opened about 10 of my personal files, all with considerable History entries. I duplicated hundreds of objects, further increasing the amount of History entires before leaving my machine on overnight and I came back to it today and it definitely feels like things are responding slower but I am certainly not seeing a delay that matches what you have mentioned  It's probably a combination of the type and amount of History you're getting in your docs.

[orangefizz]

I guess neither of those bodes well: the documents I was working with were small, I was simply doing a lot of editing, copying and pasting between two tabs over a couple of days. Selecting, drawing, painting, using brushes, adjusting brush settings etc. At some point I noticed just how long it was taking to switch between tabs (the topic of my other bug report) and that this color swatch dialog was similarly slowed to a crawl.

At some point I'll restart the computer and see if these are related.

[orangefizz]

 Bear in mind that it's not showing when I click, but take my word for it that I'm clicking around 1-2 seconds before the color dialog pops up. Sometimes the delay is much longer.

 

 

[Chris B]

We've managed to reproduce this. I'll get it logged - thanks.

[orangefizz]

Turning off hardware acceleration fixed this.